Quotes with alms-taking

Quotes 181 till 200 of 218.

  • Jacob Bronowski To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Anthony Eden We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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  • Walter Benjamin We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Ronald Reagan We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Casey Affleck We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap.
    Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist We've got to do better at taking care of players and making sure the fans get the best of the players when they're showcasing their abilities.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Annie Leibovitz What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Natasha Josefowitz What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Italo Calvino What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Barbara Lee What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile When I turned 30, I started to feel all those miles. At times, you want to turn the faucet off a bit, but I never want to stop traveling. That's what it's all about - taking the music to the people.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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