Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • André Maurois We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Don Marquis We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Barton We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • La Bruyere We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
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  • Beck We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Aristotle We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
    Source: Q Magazine interview,Nov 2010
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Barack Obama We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
    Source: Speech ObamaCare, 2010-03-21
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard
    Source: Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Disgrace
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Bob Iger We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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