Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 8101 till 8120 of 12035.

  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Mother Teresa The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Malcolm Forbes The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Garry Kasparov The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
    Source: How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Toni Morrison The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Paxton Hood The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
    Paxton Hood
     
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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