Quotes 961 till 980 of 1869.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.
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People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
On War (1832) Ch. 11 -
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. When alive, would not have contributed.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
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