Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1583.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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Racing takes everything you've got - intellectually, emotionally, physically - and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.
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Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
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Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719) -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
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Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.
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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.
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Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr's track record, should we suspect that he's trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence?
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Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
Source: Harvest (2013) 20 -
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
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See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
Source: Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker -
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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