Quotes with hundred-to-one

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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes The condition of man is a condition of war of every one against everyone.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Arundhati Roy The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Herman Melville The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Victor Hugo The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • John F. Kennedy The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Balthus The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • André Malraux The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Baruch Lev The crux of the accounting problem with intangibles is that to know the past, one must know the future.
    Intangibles: Management, Measurement and Reporting (2001)
    Baruch Lev
    American economist and accounting professor
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  • Bruce Sutter The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Lydia Maria Child The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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  • Lydia M. Child The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John W. Gardner The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Philip Roth The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.
    The Human Stain (2000)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Abraham Cahan The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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