Sets Quotes

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It's goodbye to reality when love sets in. — Saul Bellow
Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's… — Russell Baker
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he… — Margaret Mead
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it. — Dante Alighieri
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom and achieve external… — B.K.S. Iyengar
A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring. — Lubov Azria
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe… — Jonathan Swift
Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and… — Kurt Vonnegut
It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no… — James Russell Lowell
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,… — Samuel Johnson
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning
The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom. — Robert Browning
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man,… — Lord Chesterfield
Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task… — Karl Marx
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure… — Ben Jonson
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth… — John Stuart Mill
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. — Mary Astell
The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable. — Jean Genet
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores… — Evita Peron
Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to… — Richard M. Nixon

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