Quotes with modern-day

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  • Bill Cosby For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Edgar Cayce For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
    Edgar Cayce
    American clairvoyant (1877 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benito Mussolini Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
    As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Frist From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
    A Brief History of Time (1988)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brent Sexton Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Mark Twain Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clint Eastwood Go ahead, make my day.
    Clint Eastwood
    American actor, filmmaker and musician (1930 - )
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  • Les Brown Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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