Quotes 10441 till 10460 of 10501.
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation, that He exists.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
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In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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