Quotes 21 till 40 of 1985.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
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All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
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And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
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Come what come may,
time and the hour runs through the roughest day.Macbeth (1605) -
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman
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