Quotes 161 till 180 of 460.
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspensed, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.
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It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.
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It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
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Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
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Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
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Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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