Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2372.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
De zelfmoord van de meisjes (2008) -
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
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The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -
The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
Hustling for the record machine.
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.Born To Run (1975) Jungleland -
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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