Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Marcus Aurelius One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Robert Burton One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • George Eliot One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Clinton One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Sophocles One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Ben Shapiro One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Dan Quayle One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Alfred Kazin One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
    Alfred Kazin
     
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  • Thomas Arnold One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bill Dedman One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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