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Quotes 7521 till 7540 of 9541.

  • Bhagat Singh Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ben E. King Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aristotle Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Those who get their living by their daily labor... have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • A. Trollope Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
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  • Billy Joel Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Alan Bennett Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Leigh Hunt Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Dorothy Parker Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • P. T. Barnum Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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