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Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 1727.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Asa Gray There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Paramahansa Yogananda There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    Indian Hindu monk, yogi and teacher (1893 - 1952)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • B. C. Forbes There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
    Forbes Epigrams Or 1,000 Thoughts on Life
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Alan K. Simpson There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • A. N. Wilson There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 15
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • James Burnham There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
    The Machiavellians p. 280
    James Burnham
    American philosopher and political theorist (1905 - 1987)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Diane Ackerman There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Martin Luther There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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  • Oscar Wilde There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Buzz Aldrin There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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