Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

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  • Thomas Traherne The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Oscar Wilde The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry Larkin The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The starting point of all achievement is desire.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Jean Dubuffet The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Baltasar Garzon The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Gloria Steinem The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Michel Foucault The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's on fire in a real death waltz
    Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
    Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all,
    They just stand back and let it all be
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henry Miller The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Betty Friedan The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Mark Caine The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Bill Frist The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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