Quotes 201 till 220 of 288.
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
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Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
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Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
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Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.
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