Quotes 5041 till 5060 of 5636.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
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What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
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What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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