Quotes 221 till 240 of 286.
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The people are to be taken in small doses.
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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
― Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
Source: My Life as Me: A Memoir -
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
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This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
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Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.
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Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
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