Quotes with all-american

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  • J. C. Hare Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
    J. C. Hare
     
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  • Robert Browning Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Barbara Cook New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Johnny Carson New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • O'Donnell Chris Next Big Thing - you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Lily Tomlin Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Wyndham Lewis No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Ben Elton No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Source: Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • W. C. Fields No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Milan Kundera No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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