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Quotes 161 till 180 of 209.

  • George Bernard Shaw The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bre Pettis The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Milan Kundera The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Ben Gibbard The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Carl Sagan The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
    Cosmos (1980) 221
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Armistead Maupin The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bill Maris There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Carol Moseley Braun There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bertolt Brecht There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bill Gates There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Brendan Dooling There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Brent Spiner There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
    Brent Spiner
    American actor, comedian and singer (1949 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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