Quotes 41 till 60 of 84.
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Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 15 -
Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
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Self-abnegation is a trait most often seen in women, rarely in men.
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Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii -
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
Motherland (2012)
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