Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1813.
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One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
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One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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Other people are very like ourselves: they are shy and well meaning.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
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Our country is where ever we are well off.
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Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.
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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
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