Quotes 61 till 80 of 173.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XLV -
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
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It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
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Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg--that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
Roots Radical, Guitar Player (December 1, 1999) -
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100 -
Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
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