Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    Source: The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Washington Irving Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No, no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Buddha Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sophocles Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • George Eliot Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Martin Luther Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Caroline Knapp Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Anne Northup Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Source: Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Epictetus Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Alan Paton Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Martin Luther Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell;
    'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
    My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
    I never soiled with such a deed.
    Source: More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Philip James Bailey Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.
    Source: Festus (1813) A Country Town
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • John Milton Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
    Source: Paradise lost (1667)
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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