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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a… — Joseph Conrad
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less… — Max Beerbohm
... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Of what significance are the things you can forget. — Henry David Thoreau
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. — Oscar Wilde
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. — Solon
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Size does matter. There's a lot of ways to make people feel good, but personally I think it does enhance things. — Pamela Anderson
I'm really good at being sarcastic with guys. That's the best way to hang out with them, because that's what guys . They don't want… — Jessica Alba
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say… — Abraham Lincoln
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. — George Santayana
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why… — Oscar Wilde
This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself. — Henry Beston
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live… — Noam Chomsky
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the… — George W. Bush
I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one of the beautiful… — George W. Bush
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. — Louis Kronenberger
When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All… — Ugo Betti
I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution; because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for… — Jonas Salk

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