Quotes 481 till 500 of 1174.
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
Pensees (1669) -
Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!
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Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
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Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
Het leven van Pi p.18 -
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
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Lost - Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
A Beautiful Thought… we clip from an exchange paper Universalist Union (16 March 1844)
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