Quotes 701 till 720 of 2216.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
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I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
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I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.
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I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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