Quotes with half-believes

Quotes 341 till 360 of 466.

  • Alice Munro The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Benedict Arnold The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
    Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • George Santayana The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl Schmitt The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • John Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
    On liberty (1859)
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The first blow is half the battle.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Mark Twain The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Cass Sunstein The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Hesiod The half is greater than the whole.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafĂ©.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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