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Quotes 201 till 220 of 249.

  • Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Tom Wolfe The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • Boris Sidis The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Lord George Byron The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oswald Spengler The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
    Oswald Spengler
    German philosopher of history and historian (1880 - 1936)
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Boo Weekley The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Charles Dickens There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Heisenberg There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
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  • Benjamin Jowett There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
    Attributed. Also attributed to Anita Loos.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Albert Camus There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • William James There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Billy Collins There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ann Macbeth They will open up to what I would call corporate broadcastings where the non-commercial material will have air time. There's no possibility of that here right now, none.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Harrison This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
    Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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