Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 12035.

  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Brad Feld By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Nikos Kazantzakis By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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  • Bruno Walter By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
    Bruno Walter
     
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  • Saskya Pandita By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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  • Mark Twain By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • George Santayana By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Albert Ellis By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Mandrell By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • George Orwell By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    Source: As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • Jerry Rubin By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
    Jerry Rubin
     
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  • Andrea Dworkin By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Gloria Steinem By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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