Things Quotes
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To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.
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Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?
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Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.
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Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.
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There is a price for all things, my son, for all men. I have merely to find his.
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Managers should understand there are some simple things they can do tomorrow that will make a big difference in their culture, but so few managers do them.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
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Everybody says your mind is the most important thing about your body. Your mind and your body. You keep both busy, and by God you'll be here a long time.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Difficult things aren't easy, but they're worth it.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.
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When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.
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There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
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Things aren't going well right now. I'm in a very bad slump.
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We're not guaranteed tomorrow, but we do have today. Don't wait to do the things that are important to you.
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Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.
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You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.
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All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.
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Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.
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There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there’s hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.
