Quotes with beaver-like

Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 3710.

  • Andrew Cohen To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Paul Klee To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bertrand Russell To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Marshall To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Elvis Presley To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
    Aantekening op zijn bijbel
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Sallust To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Barry Humphries To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Samuel Butler To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Al Franken To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • John Mason Brown To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Beck To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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