Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1944.

  • Mark Twain Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Martin Luther King Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Matthew Arnold Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Puerto Rico is one of those places you can be as quiet or as crazy as you want, because there's so much nightlife. I have to take the craziness carefully.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Greenwood Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Angela Davis Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Benjamin Franklin Read much, but not many books.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Gurdjieff Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he ''lives'' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Noah Porter Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
    Noah Porter
    American academic, philosopher and author (1811 - 1892)
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  • Jean Rostand Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Dick Gregory Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Albrecht Durer Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Edgar Quinet Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Richard Nixon Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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