Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 8701 till 8720 of 12035.

  • Ernest Hello The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
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  • Alexander Smith The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • E.J. Phelps The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
    E.J. Phelps
     
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ben Kingsley The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Alfred Korzybski The map is not the territory.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Henry George The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Douglas Everett The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Florence Nightingale The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Bhagat Singh The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Mark Twain The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Og Mandino The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Eddington The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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