Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 4622.

  • Lao-Tzu In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bill Pascrell In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than were captured or killed. There weren't any terrorists in Iraq in 2003, but there are now.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Winston Churchill In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Clinton In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Will Rogers Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Larry McMurtry Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
    Larry McMurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Asa Gray Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Voltaire Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Andrew Young Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Arthur Levitt Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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