Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 17301 till 17320 of 25371.

  • John Greenleaf Whittier The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Basil Bunting The Duke can get his rent
    and we can get our ticket
    twa pund emigrant
    on a C.P.R. packet.
    Source: Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
    Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Andrew Jackson The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • W. H. Auden The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Ben Elton The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Roger Bannister The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Brad Falchuk The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Ben Bernanke The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili The economy is governed through cartel agreements and monopoly. The attorney general is the one who's controlling funds. There is no free business in Georgia.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Aldous Huxley The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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