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Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1511.

  • Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Machiavelli There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Confucius There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Samuel Butler There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Gordon Graham There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
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  • Indira Gandhi There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.
    Indira Gandhi
    Indian stateswoman (1917 - 1984)
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  • Bill Hybels There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Paramahansa Yogananda There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    Indian Hindu monk, yogi and teacher (1893 - 1952)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • B. C. Forbes There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
    Forbes Epigrams Or 1,000 Thoughts on Life
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Alan K. Simpson There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • A. N. Wilson There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 15
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Diane Ackerman There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Martin Luther There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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