Quotes with most-used

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  • Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • James Baldwin We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carl Honore We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Buck Owens We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bernie Worrell We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Bono We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Eddington We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Eric Hoffer We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Al Sharpton We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Bre Pettis We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Cate Blanchett We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Mann We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Richard Whately Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bud Grant Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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