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Quotes 19121 till 19140 of 26406.

  • Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Carlos Santana The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Adam Osborne The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bobbi Brown The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • William Hazlitt The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Plato The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • George S. Patton The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Carol P. Christ The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Erich Fromm The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Raymond Chandler The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bram Stoker The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
    Source: Dracula (1897)
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Callie Khouri The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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