Quotes with modern-day

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  • Bill Gates Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Tom Stoppard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brit Marling So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Ben Vereen So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Emile Wiechert So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
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  • Will Rogers So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bernhard Langer So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • William Howard Taft Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • John Morley Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Barbara Hambly Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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  • Anita Desai Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Burt Bacharach Somewhere there's a happy harbor
    far from the storm.
    Out where the sun shines there is someone
    I'm meant to adore,
    and I know the day I find her,
    I'll smile once more.
    Song Nikki
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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