Quotes 581 till 600 of 845.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
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The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
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The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
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The fear is for what is still to be lost.
Blue Nights (2012) 134 -
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
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The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
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