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Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 6336.

  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Dean William R. Inge How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Adam Clarke However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • W. J. Reichmann Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
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  • George Eliot Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aaron Klug Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • H.G. Wells Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.... Realistic, comprehensively responsible, omni-system-considerate, unselfish thinking on the part of humans does absolutely affect human destiny.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Alexander Theroux Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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