Quotes with ago-they

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  • Will Durant Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Socrates Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Edmund Burke Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in evers' soil.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carl Honore Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Stephen Hawking So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
    The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bill Bailey So go into your local branch of UBS, and say I'd like to open an account please., and when they say What with? take out a loud hailer and say NAZI GOLD! Just like you did!
    Tinselworm
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road...
    The Rising (2002) Further On (Up the Road)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Brendan Behan So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrack, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
    Borstal Boy pt. 3 (1958)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • W. Clement Stone So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Bonnie Tyler So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • A. A. Milne So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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