Quotes with often-repeated

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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Edgar R. Fiedler For economist the real world is often a special case.
    Edgar R. Fiedler
    American economist and politician (1929 - 2003)
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Socrates From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Angela Merkel From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bono God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Alexander Pope Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Brad D. Smith Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Rita Mae Brown Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
    Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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