Quotes with four-and-a-half

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  • Anne Bronte His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Alexander Woollcott His huff arrived and he departed in it.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Emily Dickinson His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Mark Twain His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Abdallah II Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Roland Barthes Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Blake Farenthold Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Ben Bernanke History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Clinton History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.
    Time Magazine
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Alan Bean History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Augustine Birrell History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
    Orbiter dicta
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • H.G. Wells History is a race between education and catastrophe.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • George Santayana History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Voltaire History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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