Quotes 781 till 800 of 1424.
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People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
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People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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Persevere in a thorough determination to do whatever you have to do, as well as you can do it.
Source: Letter to Edward Dickens 26 sept. 1868 -
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
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Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere important without my own favorite Hermès black bag... I have my jewelry with me in case something happens and I suddenly have to dress up. For me, going out without that purse would seem almost like going out naked. Well, almost.
Source: Charlotte Chandler - It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock -
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Politeness has well been defined as benevolence in small things.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well: that is, to understand.Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2. -
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.
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Property has its duties as well as its rights.
Source: Letter to the Earl of Donoughmore, 22-5-1838
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