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Quotes 621 till 640 of 1569.

  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Angela Merkel It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Anthony de Mello It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Aeschylus It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Petronius It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
    Petronius
    Roman writer (27 - 66)
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  • George Eliot It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Salvador Dali It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Butler It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ian Mcewan It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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