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Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 1583.

  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Harold Macmillan We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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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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  • Andrew Cohen We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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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.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Brigid Brophy We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Laurence Sterne We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Thomas Jefferson We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
    Source: Cosmography (1992)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Arianna Huffington We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Byron Katie We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Aristotle We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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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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  • Caitlin Moran We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Nick Faldo We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
    Nick Faldo
     
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