Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Boris Sidis If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
    Source: The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Herman Melville If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Wallace Stevens If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ad Reinhardt If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Brian Austin Green If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Billy Higgins If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Ben Horowitz If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
    Source:  (2000)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bob Diamond If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Billy West If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Anderson Cooper If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • John Lennon If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Bob Dole If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
    Source: Reported in New York Magazine (April 29, 1996), v. 29, no. 17, p. 13.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benito Mussolini If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the collective century, and therefore the century of the state.
    Source: The Doctrine of Fascism
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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