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Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1835.

  • Ralph Novak Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
    Ralph Novak
     
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  • John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Barton Seaver Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • John Milton Revenge, at first though sweet,
    Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
    Source: Paradise lost (1667) IX, 171
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Francis Bacon Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Billy Dee Williams Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Cargill Gilston Knott Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Douglas Adams See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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