"It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen……" — James Hilton
"It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away."
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18 Quotes by James Hilton
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all…
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If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not…
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If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
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People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too…
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Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.
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The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the…
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more.…
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The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
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When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.
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I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from…
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There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel…
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Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them,…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever;…
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
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My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,…
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
— John Berger
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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