Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 25898.
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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Atonement (2001) -
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Wuthering Heights (1847) -
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Wings of Fire -
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography -
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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