Quotes 421 till 440 of 666.
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So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
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Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
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Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
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Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
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States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013) -
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
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