Quotes 3961 till 3980 of 4570.
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
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Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
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We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was Jumpin' Jack Flash. It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.
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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
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We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.
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