Quotes with jack-of-all-trades

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  • Lord George Byron The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bette Davis The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Carl Sagan The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Boxer The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Claude M. Bristol The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Thomas Merton The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Bill Hicks The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
    Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Buddha The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Jack Handey The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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  • Nicholas Boileau The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Machiavelli The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Alan K. Simpson The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The word of man is the most durable of all material.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Hortense Calisher The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Betty Buckley The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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