Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2349.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Source: Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) -
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
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There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
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There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
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