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“In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.”

Mind Firsts Courses Water Views Originals Strikes Originality Exploring Speculation Doubtful Drop Of Water

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.”

Lasts Courses Asks Cases Society Century Concern Scientist Forgotten Meaningless Pretext Dizzy Pertinent Pertinent Questions

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.”

Helping Values Courses Particular Balance Solitude Stress Cushions

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.”

Thinking Kind Mean Running Courses Race Dad Smart Picks Scary Mates Propositions Mccain

Author:Jay Leno

“Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face.”

Ifs Thinking Humans May Body Bigs Happens Faces Dies Courses Natural Differences Attitude Our Lives Easier Bounds Flesh Sooner Or Later Avoiding Natural Death

Book:The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom

Source: The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom

“Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.”

Ifs World Want Years Facts Courses Fun Race Adventure Grew Mountain Ocean Grew Up Snow Desert Motivated Weekend Exploring Avenues Surf Skis Showcase San Diego

Author:Robert Burns

“Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.”

People Seems Running Time Courses Next Objects Busy Mysterious Needles Misuse Clockwork

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.”

Self Courses Grateful Sufficient Apartment Stairs Refrigerators Self Sufficient I Am Grateful

Author:Aleksandr Karelin

“The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.”

Whole Seems Courses Nature Nothingness

Author:Philip James Bailey

“Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.”

Courses Indolence

Author:Noel Coward

“Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”

People Knows Littles Courses Natural Prayer Events Radical Inevitable Radical Change

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.”

Love Courses Marry Me

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.”

Values Courses Economics Method Financial Statements Trading Misunderstanding Transactions

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.”

Eye Order Courses Simple Clear Benefits Exposed Contrast

Author:Samuel Beckett

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“Courses that you've had success on, all of a sudden your game turns around because you feel comfortable on your tee shots, you feel comfortable going to the greens, you know, all the reads on the putts. It's a feeling that's hard to describe, but it's certainly one that you get filled up with confidence more than anything else.”

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Author:Tiger Woods

“If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.”

Ifs Action Courses Goal Lines Clear Focus Plans Achieve Becoming Focused Planning Fixed Distraction Straight Lines Diversion Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.”

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Author:Earl Nightingale

“When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.”

Lying Courses Asks Rain Complaining Fallen Highways

Author:Leonard Cohen

“If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.”

Ifs Courses Suicide Reputation

Book:A New Way to pay Old Debts. A comedy in five acts

Source: A New Way to pay Old Debts. A comedy in five acts

“Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.”

People Book Ideas Enough Age Courses Strange Perception Silly Old Fashioned

Author:Prince Philip

“Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.”

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Author:Gregory Bateson

“And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it.”

Courses Names Security Yeah Pet Goldfish Anthrax Family Name

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?”

Important Courses Individual Quality Originality

Author:Robert Owen

“It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.”

Men World Art Form Courses Office Tyranny Alternatives Spotlight Pistols

Author:Theodor Adorno

“And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.”

Courses Drawing Pencils Knights Undisciplined Watercolors

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.”

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Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.”

Knows Problem Courses Accuracy

Author:Paul Dickson

“He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.”

Ifs Thinking Want Enough Courses Fiction Journey Love You Love Someone Steers Controllers If You Love Someone

Author:Julian Fellowes

“Ultimately of course, parents must take responsibility for their children's health, .. Our message must be: What you don't know about your children's health insurance options can hurt them. It's up to you to find out if your child is eligible for this health insurance.”

Ifs Knows Children Courses Parent Hurt Responsibility Messages Our Children Your Children Taking Responsibility Up To You

Author:Hillary Clinton

“To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of staying the course, both in terms of denying Moscow the military hegemony it sought in Western Europe and of restoring the will, cohesiveness, and security of the NATO alliance, so badly frayed during the turbulent 1970s.”

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Author:Frank Gaffney

“Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.”

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Author:Chris Patten

“It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.”

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Author:Robert W. Welch, Jr.

“I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.”

Knows Men Should Doe Courses Church Sin Tasks Forgiving Gods Will Great Things Unconditional Magnitude Rigor

Book:God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

Source: God and the World: Believing and Living in Our Time : a Conversation with Peter Seewald

“Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.”

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Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.”

Wells Art Courses Masters Strikes Patriotism

Book:Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as much as in you lies to put the Lord Jesus Christ from you, and if you go on in this course you begin, you will bring a curse upon you and your posterity, and the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

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Author:Anne Hutchinson

“There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing!”

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Author:Steven Hill

“A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!”

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Author:Naomi Judd

“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”

“Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.”

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Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me”

Desire Courses Horrible Nasty

Author:Alan Sugar

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

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Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.”

People Want I Can Certain Humanity Courses Celebrate Cynicism Misanthropy

Author:Todd Solondz

“Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.”

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Author:Todd Solondz

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

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Author:Jean Vanier

“You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.”

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Author:David Stern

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