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Quotes 961 till 980 of 1511.

  • Thomas à Kempis The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Confucius The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Audre Lorde The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Beth Grant The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Nikola Tesla The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Bob Riley The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Ben Affleck The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Big Pun The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
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  • Seneca The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The first blow is half the battle.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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