Quotes with looking-glass

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  • Barbara Mikulski Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Burr Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their marks.
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark.
    It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Confucius Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bob Cousy Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Herbert Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Augusto Pinochet During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
    Augusto Pinochet
    Chilean general, politician and dictator (1915 - 2006)
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  • Mervyn Peake Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
    Mervyn Peake
    English author and illustrator (1911 - 1968)
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  • John Calvin Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything… our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Cindy Crawford Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
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  • Ben Carson Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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