Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Ralph Ellison If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
    Ralph Ellison
    American writer and essayist (1914 - 1994)
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  • Andrew Grove If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Adam Walinsky If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.
    Adam Walinsky
    American Lawyer, Speechwriter (1937 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Orson Welles If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki If there is a camera or someone making a picture or - just do the things you always want to do, because if you start thinking about everything, then you start changing the things you would do. And that's not the life you want to live.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bert McCracken If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do and do it well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Hubert Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Albert Camus If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • W. Clement Stone If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • B. B. King If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Cass Sunstein If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben E. King If there's anything about the business that I love and that I'm extremely happy about, is that my career started at that time and that I met some of the greatest entertainers at that time and some are still here.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Jeremy Taylor If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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