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Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 2137.

  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Billy Beane The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Jean Cocteau The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Earl Nightingale The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Wayne Dyer The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Alvin Toffler The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Oscar Wilde The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sigmund Freud The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Clive James The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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