Quotes with half-point

Quotes 701 till 720 of 790.

  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Barbara Deming Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
    We are all part of one another
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Sebastian Faulks We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Zhuang Zhou We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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  • Anthony Holden We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Schurz We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
    State Rights and Byron Paine, Albany Hall, Milwaukee, (23 March 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bob Graham We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Adrian Smith We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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  • Anita Borg We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Helen Rowland Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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