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Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 4622.

• There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

  Bob Kerrey
  American politician (1943 - )
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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi
  Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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• There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

  Ivan Illich
  Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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• There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

  Félix Lope de Vega
  Spanish playwright and poet (1562 - 1635)
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• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

  Ben Johnson
  English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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• There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

  G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

  Thomas Reid
   
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• There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

  Henri-Louis Bergson
  French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Henry Huxley
  English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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• There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

  Alexander Volkov
   
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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Alighieri Dante
  Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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• There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.

  Ben Shapiro
  American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.''

  Albert Schweitzer
  German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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• There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

  Barbara Ward
  British economist
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• There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

  Peter Ackroyd
  English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• uninterrupted
• consciousness
• humiliation
• liberating
• punishment
• impediment

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