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Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 1583.

  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Henry Miller The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bill Vaughan The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Johnston The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bill Hybels The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Anais Nin The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bede Griffiths The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brit Marling The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
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  • Kahlil Gibran The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Aristotle The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Jonathan Swift The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Charles Dickens The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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