Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 241 till 260 of 2174.

  • Ben Goldacre Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Winter Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
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  • Robert Southey Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Will Rogers America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Israel Zangwill America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Adam Schiff Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Frederick the Great An educated people can be easily governed.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Walter Bagehot An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Lee An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Alan Dundes Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Arthur Rimbaud And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Arthur Bryant And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • William Shakespeare And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • William Cobbett Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of ''speculation''; but which ought to be called Gambling.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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