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Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 15856.

  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Billy Joel As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • David Byrne As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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  • Bryan Greenberg As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Artur Davis As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Stuart Mill As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Myriam Miedzian As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bill Dedman As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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