Quotes with heavier-than-air

Quotes 2601 till 2620 of 4330.

  • John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Arthur Levitt One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Sophocles One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Alexander Chase One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • B. Carroll Reece One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
    The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Oscar Wilde Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Elie Wiesel Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Eugene Wilson Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
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  • Bill Bryson Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Junius Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Ben Gibbard Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Robert Cialdini Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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