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Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 10591.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karen Horney Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
    Karen Horney
    German-American psychoanalyst (1885 - 1952)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Angela Carter Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • William Wordsworth Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Mark Twain It 's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Khaled Hosseini It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • William Mathews It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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  • Ben Schnetzer It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Bode Miller It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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