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Quotes 741 till 760 of 863.

  • Samuel Johnson Virtue is too often merely local.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Betty Williams War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Aldous Huxley War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George S. Patton Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Richard Marcinko We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often - much, much more often - it will save your life.
    Richard Marcinko
    American Navy officer and Vietnam War veteran (1940 - )
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  • Seneca We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Horace We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bill McKibben We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Publilius Syrus We die as often as we lose a friend.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • David Grayson We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Anne C. Weisberg We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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  • Winston Churchill We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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