Quotes with most-used

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  • Thomas Jefferson Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Olson Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Gail Sheehy All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Cate Blanchett All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Banksy All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Source: Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bob Knight All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • George F. Will All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are ''up to a point.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • W. C. Fields All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Brendon Urie All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Franklin P. Jones All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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