Quotes 401 till 420 of 631.
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People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.
1910 Speech, quoted in Alan L. Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977) -
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
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Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to European Union (2012) -
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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