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Quotes 41 till 60 of 1583.

  • Cato the Elder I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Addison It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Nick Lappos One can win a war with either atomic weapons or by simply placing a 9mm pistol in the right room.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Stephen R. Covey Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Henry Ford Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Right is its own defense.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Albert Claude Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Alan Kay Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Hosea Ballou Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Warren Buffett The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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