Quotes with all-american

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Julius Erving The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
    Julius Erving
    American basketball player (1950 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Raymond Chandler The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Orr The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Ruth Gordon The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Avicenna The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Mark Twain The lack of money is the root of all evils.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Barbara Lee The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • C. L. R. James The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Ben Nicholson The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Benito Mussolini The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Blaise Pascal The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Michael Faraday The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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