Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 1869.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
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The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
Interview from Programmers at Work -
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Birdsong (2010) 9 -
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Mastery -
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
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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.
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