Quotes with (perhaps)

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  • Samuel Beckett To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Scott Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carine Roitfeld We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Eric Hoffer We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Jowett We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?
    Quoted by Geoffrey Madan
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Francis H. Bradley We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Andrew Wiles We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Kenneth Grahame Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
    Kenneth Grahame
    British novelist (1859 - 1932)
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  • Augustus Hare What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Jackson What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken When a diplomat says yes, he means 'perhaps'; When he says perhaps, he means 'no'; When he says no, he is not a diplomat.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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