Quotes with good-fortune

Quotes 2241 till 2260 of 2950.

  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Jean Paul Getty The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Mark Twain The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Dedman The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Betty Dodson The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Seneca The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Alighieri Dante The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Francis Bacon The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Publilius Syrus The next day is never so good as the day before.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously - and have somebody find out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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