Quotes with not-self

Quotes 4441 till 4460 of 10786.

  • Alfred Nobel It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Samuel Huntington It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.
    The Clash of Civilizations? (1993)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • J. B. S. Haldane It is my supposition that the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.
    J. B. S. Haldane
    English-Indian geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892 - 1964)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • Hyman G. Rickover It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
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  • Anthony Trollope It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Albert Camus It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • S. Maxwell Coder It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.
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  • Thomas Paine It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Burgess Owens It is not a fun process to run full-tilt toward guys who are running toward you full-tilt.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Emily Carr It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Susan Sontag It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • André Gide It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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