Quotes with most-used

Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2849.

  • Ashley Montagu The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • John C. Calhoun The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Caleb Deschanel The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Peter Carey The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
    Source:  (2010)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • L. Schefer The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
    L. Schefer
     
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Vaughan The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
    Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Tacitus The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Morris Hite The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable.
    Morris Hite
     
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Robert Burns The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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