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Quotes 101 till 120 of 1727.

  • Arnold Bennett A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Billie Jean King A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Alexander Smith A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Publilius Syrus A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brad Feld A lot of times, when I interact with someone for the first time, I don't want to see the presentation.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Herodotus A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Butler A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Buddha A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William James A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bayard Taylor A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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