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Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 3862.

  • Edward Hoagland Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Billy Casper Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
    Billy Casper
    American professional golfer (1931 - )
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  • Jean Paul Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Carlo Ratti Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Buzz Aldrin Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
    Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ariel Sharon Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Agnes Smedley Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Al Capp Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Carlos Fuentes Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Assata Shakur Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 65
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Don Marquis Like all other zealous reformers we do what we do because we like doing it better than anything else.
    The almost perfect state
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Bill Gates Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
    "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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