Quotes 101 till 120 of 136.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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The office should seek the man, not man the office.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.
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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
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There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
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