Quotes with first-rate

Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1569.

  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aldo Leopold To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William Shakespeare To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Aleister Crowley To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ayn Rand To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • George Earle Buckle To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Bob Rae To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Edmond de Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • C. L. R. James Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Carlo Ratti Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bianca Kajlich Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Albert Camus Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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