Quotes 181 till 200 of 469.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
The Poisonwood Bible -
Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
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In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
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In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.
Bruce Springsteen Talking -
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but murder.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
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