Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1789.
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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 the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
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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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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
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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 -
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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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.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961) -
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Politeness has well been defined as benevolence in small things.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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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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