Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1586.
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The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
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The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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The place where I had so much success as a driver would be where I had my first win as a team owner.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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