Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Carl von Clausewitz With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carolyn Chute With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bill Pullman With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Bellamy Young With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Barry Cornwall Within the midnight of her hair, Half-hidden in its deepest deeps.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Camille Paglia Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Winston Churchill Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Homer Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • William Blake Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Albert Camus Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Vaclav Havel Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Albert Camus Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Francis Bacon Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Fitzhugh Dodson Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
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  • Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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