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Quotes 941 till 960 of 1835.

  • Johnny Carson My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
    Johnny Carson
    American TV personality, businessman (1925 - 2005)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Callie Khouri Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Rose Tremain Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
    Source:  (2010)
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Josh Billings Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Dedman New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abel Stevens No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
    Abel Stevens
    American Methodist clergy (1815 - 1897)
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  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • James Baldwin No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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