Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 18481 till 18500 of 25371.

  • John Boyle O'Reilly The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    Irish poet, journalist, author and activist (1844 - 1890)
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  • Bayard Rustin The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • William Hazlitt The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Blaise Pascal The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Gloria Steinem The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • David Mamet The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Jack Handey The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!
    Jack Handey
     
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  • Caroll Spinney The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Avi Arad The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
    Owen Davies
     
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  • Camilla Lackberg The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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