Quotes 661 till 680 of 945.
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The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
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The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
Source: On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012. -
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni -
The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.
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The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
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The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
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The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
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The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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