Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 17201 till 17220 of 25371.

  • Bret Harte The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Ann Veneman The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Mark Rutherford The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we persist in it induces paralysis.
    Source: Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1885) p. 206
    Mark Rutherford
    British composer (1831 - 1913)
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  • W. White The demand for certainty is a sign of weakness, and if we persist in it, induces paralysis.
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  • Emma Goldman The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Billy Sunday The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
    Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Bob Schaffer The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Leon Trotsky The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Tacitus The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Anna Lindh The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Karl Marx The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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