Quotes 201 till 220 of 304.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
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The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
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The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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