Quotes 301 till 320 of 1600.
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
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Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
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Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.
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Everything costs its own cost, and one of our best virtues is a just desire to pay it.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.
Interview with FOCUS Magazine, July 2005 -
Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Farther Away: Essays (2012) 40 -
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
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