Quotes 361 till 380 of 5987.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
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A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1117 -
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
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