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Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 2075.

  • Al Capone This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Sallust Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus every Part was full of Vice,
    Yet the whole Mass a Paradise;
    Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars,
    They were th' Esteem of Foreigners,
    And lavish of their Wealth and Lives,
    The Balance of all other Hives.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 155, p. 9
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Thomas Paine Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Burt Rutan To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • George Bernard Shaw To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • 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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