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Quotes 3901 till 3920 of 3972.

  • Sacha Guitry A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Ronald Reagan Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Leo Tolstoy All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Theodor W. Adorno Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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  • Rita Mae Brown As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bill Walton But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Pablo Picasso Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Theodor W. Adorno Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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  • Pablo Picasso Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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