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Quotes 2501 till 2520 of 3762.

  • John Wooden The most important thing in the world is family and love.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Brandan Behan The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
    Brandan Behan
     
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  • A. E. Housman The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
    Source: Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Nathaniel Borenstein The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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  • Lord Shaftesbury The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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  • Bono The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Billy Paul The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.
    Billy Paul
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Malcolm X The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Arundhati Roy The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The name of an iron man goes round the world.
    It takes a long time to forget an iron man.
    Source: Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Adam Schiff The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson The newest books are those that never grow old.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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