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Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 6532.

  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Source: Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • William James As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Renan As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Cate Blanchett As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Carl Van Vechten As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carter G. Woodson As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Carl Hubbell As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Peter Cook As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
    Peter Cook
    English satirist and comedic actor (1937 - 1995)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Barack Obama As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Thomas à Kempis As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Lee As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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