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- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
- I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental…
- If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary
- In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be…
- I said nothing of the sort.
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
- Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
- An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul…
- I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend…
- For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and steep it in…
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- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy… — Alan Ball
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people… — J. G. Ballard