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Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1709.

  • Aldous Huxley Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Walter Benjamin Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Angela Davis Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • William Moulton Marston Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
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  • Armstrong Williams Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bill Laswell Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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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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  • Bhagavad Gita Renunciation and activity both liberate,
    but to work is better than to renounce.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bill Bradley Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Atom Egoyan Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Gray Scott Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
    Gray Scott
    American futurologist
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carolyn Chute Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Ban Kimoon Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such - as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association - the going will be hard indeed.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Bill Bryson Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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