Quotes with all-time

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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bruce Jackson All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Aristotle All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Lord George Byron All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • John Cowper Powys Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
    The meaning of culture
    John Cowper Powys
    British writer, philosopher and poet (1872 - 1963)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Socrates An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • John Ruskin An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Isadora Duncan Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • James Baldwin Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • André Malraux Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • James Thurber Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Gates At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
    Interview published in BBC (website): news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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