Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 17161 till 17180 of 25371.

  • Lydia Maria Child The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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  • Lydia M. Child The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Watson The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Amartya Sen The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carson McCullers The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
    Source: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943)
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Alighieri Dante The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Oscar Wilde The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bruno Maag The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Samuel Huntington The dangerous clashes of the future are likely to arise from the interaction of Western arrogance, Islamic intolerance, and Sinic assertiveness.
    Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Bud Grant The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alexander Smith The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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