Quotes 241 till 260 of 495.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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My brain: it's my second favorite organ.
Sleeper (1973) -
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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My objection to Liberalism is this - that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind - namely, politics - of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
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My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
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No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
Long Walk to Freedom (1995) -
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
(2005) -
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
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Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
To which Costello replies "Thats what I want to find out." From: Naughty Nineties (1945) -
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
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