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Quotes 6741 till 6760 of 25174.

  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bernard Goldberg Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Cornwall I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea!
    I am where I would ever be,
    With the blue above and the blue below,
    And silence wheresoe'er I go.
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Asa Gray I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Walt Whitman I accept reality and dare not question it.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alberto Sordi I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
    Alberto Sordi
    Italian actor, film director and singer (1920 - 2003)
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  • Ann Landers I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Les Brown I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Upton Sinclair I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Ann Veneman I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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