Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Caroline Lawrence Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bill Withers Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, It's not warm when she's away, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And she's always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.
    Bill Withers
     
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  • Barbara Olson Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Napoleon Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Ali vs. Stevenson would have served as a symbolic battle between the United States and Cuba, capitalism and communism: Castro's values instilled in his boxers pitted against the values of 'merchandise' boxers from the rest of the world.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • B. W. Powe Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 157
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Source: Essay on Man 1, 276
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • John Ruskin All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
    Source: Sesame and lilies
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas J. Peters All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot All cases are unique and very similar to others.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Cate Blanchett All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Marc Chagall All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
    Marc Chagall
    Russian-French artist and painter (1887 - 1985)
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  • Bjarke Ingels All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert Southey All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Aldous Huxley All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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