Quotes with most-used

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  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Ben Vereen Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Denis Waitley No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Haydon No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Robert Half No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • John Dryden Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Henry S. Haskins Normal is the wrong name often used for average.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Simone Signoret Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
    Simone Signoret
    French actress (ps. of Simone Kaminker) (1921 - 1985)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
    Source: Judicial opinions Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Betty Ford Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
    Source: Americas most influential first ladies
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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