Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 27817.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography -
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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