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Quotes 8481 till 8500 of 10234.

  • Leonard Cohen To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Grenville Kleiser To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • E. M. Cioran To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Mark Van Doren To fail to love is not to exist at all.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alan Cohen To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Buddy Rich To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Edmund Burke To innovate is not to reform.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Brendon Burchard To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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