Quotes 61 till 80 of 631.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.
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Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
Obituary in The Independent -
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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And, because she so illumined and glorified her clan,
She brought to every father, every mother through the empire,
Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy.The Song of Long Sorrow -
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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