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Quotes 161 till 180 of 413.

  • Adam Clarke It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Susan Sontag It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Barry Mann It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Mark Twain Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Buddha Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ovid Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ovid Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Kin Hubbard Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Hannah More Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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