Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • H.G. Wells The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • William Cowper The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • William James The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Black Hawk The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
    Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Terry Pratchett The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
    Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Plato The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Carl Lewis The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Byron Howard The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Epictetus The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bobby Seale The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Anita Loos The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Higgins The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Carl Sandburg The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    Source: The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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