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Quotes 901 till 920 of 1414.

  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Thomas J. Peters The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Saadi The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Douglas Macarthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Jane Porter The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Brene Brown The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Josh Billings The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Lily Tomlin The best mind altering drug is the truth.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Burton Hillis The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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  • Daniel Defoe The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Lord George Byron The best of prophets of the future is the past.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Francis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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