Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Thomas Fuller An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • William Shakespeare And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bryan Ferry And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • W. C. Fields Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Pablo Picasso Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Theodor W. Adorno Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
    Theodor W. Adorno
    German philosopher, critic and composer (1903 - 1969)
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  • Akhenaton As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Rita Mae Brown As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Catton As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Billy Williams As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Helen Keller As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • William James As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ovid Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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