Quotes 4221 till 4240 of 5916.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
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The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
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