Quotes with most-used

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  • William Cowper Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Dame Barbara Ward We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Joseph Addison With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • David Lehman Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
    David Lehman
     
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  • Stephen R. Covey Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Carolyn See 'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Brad Delson 'Music for Relief' has played a vital role in helping get aid to people who most need it. We are deeply honored to participate in what will likely be our biggest event to date.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Ben Platt 'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Ben Lovett 'Somebody That I Used to Know' by Goyte has an odd, '80s vibe to it, but that does not mean that I did not like it. Quite the opposite actually. The song is different, and slowly lured me in. The video is just as strange, but definitely enjoyable.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Benjamin Millepied 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Bill Hader 'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Walter Bagehot A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
    Source: Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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