Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 2185.

  • Thomas Carlyle The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Martin Luther King The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • John Berger The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Alan Cranston The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Campbell Newman The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Blaise Pascal The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Norman Cousins The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Voltaire The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Alva Myrdal The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Boris Johnson The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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