Quotes 81 till 100 of 561.
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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
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But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
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But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
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By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
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December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.'
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
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Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
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During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
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