Quotes with heads-or-tails

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  • George Santayana I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ann Coulter I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bokeem Woodbine It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ogden Nash No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Charles Dickens Not in our heads but in our hearts lies the power, that leads us to great deeds.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billy Collins One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bill Buford Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Ben Hecht Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Augustus Hare Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Francis Bacon Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Brande Roderick The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Eric Hoffer The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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