Quotes with often-uncontroversial

Quotes 581 till 600 of 863.

  • John F. Kennedy The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Antonin Scalia The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
    Antonin Scalia
    American jurist (1936 - 2016)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Nelson Boswell The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
    Nelson Boswell
    American author
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  • Hubert Humphrey The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy - when properly aged.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Collins The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Horace The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Smiles The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Andy Rooney The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Albert Einstein The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Benjamin Whichcote The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
    Benjamin Whichcote
    British philosopher (1609 - 1683)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Plautus The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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