Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2063.
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The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
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The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
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The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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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 car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.
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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 cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
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The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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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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