Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2742.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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