Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 10801 till 10820 of 12035.

  • Bruce Babbitt We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Richard Whately Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jim Rohn Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Wicker Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Plato Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Euripides Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • George Eliot Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it: merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Cass Sunstein Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • William C. Bryant Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • André Gide Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Grace Speare Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Angela Davis Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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