Quotes 81 till 100 of 348.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51 -
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
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Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
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Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
Source: Pensees (1669) -
How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
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