Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 2265.
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
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Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
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Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
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Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
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Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
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Por blessing ever waits on virtuous deeds, I and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The Mourning Bride (1697) 5, 12
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