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Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 3972.

  • Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Aeschylus If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Oscar Wilde If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Oprah Winfrey If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Maria Montessori If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Niels Bohr If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Charles III If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Buddy Rich If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Maria Montessori If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Barry Marshall If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
    Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Alfred Nobel If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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