Quotes with fitting

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  • Seneca It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Arthur Capper A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Margaret Mead If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Virginia Woolf Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Abbie Hoffman It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
    Steal This Book (1971) Introduction
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
    The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bob Lilly Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
    Notes on the Next War (1935)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • T. S. Eliot We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
    Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes Habite
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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