Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1454.
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You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.' 'Some that thought that all these loves were copies of our love for the landlord.
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 59 -
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.
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You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.
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You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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[Speaking of Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner:] The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted.
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[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
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