Quotes with most-used

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  • Barry Manilow The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carol P. Christ The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Merton The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disapppear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Carl Honore The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Walter Lippmann The subtlest and most pervasive of influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of sterotypes.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Arnold Bennett The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • William Penn The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thornton Wilder The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bertrand Russell The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ann-Marie MacDonald The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
    Fall On Your Knees (2011) 358
    Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Canadian playwright and actress (1958 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The thing I fear most is fear.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ben Whishaw The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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  • Callie Thorne The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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  • Brooke Shields The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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