Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Peace Pilgrim This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Karel II This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
    Karel II
     
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  • Lorrie Moore This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Albert Einstein This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bruce Babbitt This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream's waters. This land was made for you and me.
    Woody Guthrie
     
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  • Bernard Mandeville This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bill Frist This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Aristide Briand This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Alighieri Dante This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Thomas Traherne This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Bono This moment in time will be remembered for three things: the war against terror, sure; the Internet, probably; and how we let an entire continent, Africa, burst into flames and stood around with water in cans.
    Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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