Quotes 4121 till 4140 of 5903.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
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The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101 -
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
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The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
Year to Success -
The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
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The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
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