Quotes 241 till 260 of 288.
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The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
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There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
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To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68
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