Quotes 2201 till 2220 of 2607.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.
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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
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To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
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To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
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To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
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To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
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To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
Source: Oscar and Lucinda (2010) 261
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