Quotes with most-used

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  • Sallust Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Henry L. Doherty Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Andy Warhol Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Eric Hoffer Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Boethius Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
    Seems most unrestrained to flow,
    Chance herself is reined and bitted,
    And the curb of law doth know.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Denis Waitley Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • John Dryden Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bobby Vinton Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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