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Quotes 961 till 980 of 1835.

  • Bob Ehrlich No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Cesare Pavese No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Benny Green No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Albert Einstein No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aldous Huxley Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Baruch Spinoza None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Brene Brown Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bobby Heenan North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
    Bobby Heenan
    American professional wrestler (1944 - 2017)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Epictetus Nothing great 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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  • Carl Sandburg Nothing happens unless first a dream.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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