Quotes 1501 till 1520 of 2265.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
Source: Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times 19-9-2005 -
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
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The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
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The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
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The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
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The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
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The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
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