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Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 25164.

  • Bruce Sterling A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
    Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Chester Nimitz A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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  • Tacitus A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Alfred Adler A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Michel Faber A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
    Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Joan Didion A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 192
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Barry Cornwall A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Andy Goldsworthy A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • James Baldwin A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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