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Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 2435.

  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Alec Baldwin To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Maxwell Maltz To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • James A. Froude To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Sir Richard Steele To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abraham Pais To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Arthur Ward To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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