Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Abdus Salam Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Robert Collier All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • David Livingstone All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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