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Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 13894.

  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
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  • George Eliot A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Billy Childish A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Graham Greene A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Beecham A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Edmund Burke A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Alexander Hamilton A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Aaron Sorkin A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • William Hazlitt A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Milan Kundera A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Anthony Burgess A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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