Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Charles Caleb Colton They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Adam Garcia They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
    Adam Garcia
    Australian actor (1973 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Callimachus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
    They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
    I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
    Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
    Source: Epigrams Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Voltaire They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Audie Murphy They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Barry Pepper They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • John Tillotson They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Lord Clarendon They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
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  • Bobby Sands They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
    Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Ernest Hemingway They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
    Source: Notes on the Next War (1935)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bill Moseley They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Buddy Rich They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Ann Coulter They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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