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Quotes 321 till 340 of 428.

  • 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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  • Albert Einstein The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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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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  • Allen Klein The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Plutarch The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • Doug Horton The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Eva Figes The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Robert Half The search for someone to blame is always successful.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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