Quotes 61 till 80 of 851.
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You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
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A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.
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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, ''There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.''
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.Source: From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13 -
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
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A relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.
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A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Source: As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
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