Quotes with has-been

Quotes 2901 till 2920 of 5418.

  • Thomas Carlyle Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Buzz Aldrin NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Al Sharpton National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
    Source: Henrietta Temple (1837) VI, 24
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Socrates Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Maya Angelou Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anatole France Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Barry Schuler Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
    Barry Schuler
     
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  • Blaise Pascal Nature has set us so well in the center, that if we change one side of the balance, we change the other also. I act. This makes me believe that the springs in our brain are so adjusted that he who touches one touches also its contrary.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Susan Sontag Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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