Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2740.
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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
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Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use or value them creatively.
Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 4.7 -
Subsidies on petroleum products and fertilizers should be phased out in a defined, time-bound manner. The resources that would get freed up could then be used to fund various social sector programmes in education, healthcare and other priority sectors.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The Road Ahead (1995) -
Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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Success is not something you get out of what you do.
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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
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Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
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Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion.
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Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.
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Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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