Quotes 321 till 338 of 338.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
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Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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[When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (1927) 349
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