Quotes 161 till 180 of 851.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
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Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
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Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
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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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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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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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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
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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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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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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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First off, you can't replace Bobby Hatfield. I was just blessed to be able to sing with maybe the greatest singer in the world as a first tenor.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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