Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Carl Sagan Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Butch Trucks Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Hornsby Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.''
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Rush Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Ben Gibbard Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
    Source: The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Robert Cialdini Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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  • Kofi Annan Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Foster Dulles Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Brian P. Cleary Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
    Source: The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bob Menendez Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Barbara Coloroso Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Ben Carson Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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