Quotes with far-reaching

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  • Søren Kierkegaard Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Camille Paglia Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Far in a western brookland
    That bred me long ago
    The poplars stand and tremble
    By pools I used to know.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 52, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • John Dryden Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Far too often, software engineering is neither engineering nor about software. Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?. Retrieved on 2011-04-11.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
    That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
    Against Hope.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Cass Sunstein For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bob Barr For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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