Quotes 121 till 140 of 599.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.
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Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
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For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
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For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
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For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.
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From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
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Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
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Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
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