Quotes with one-and-twenty

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  • Simone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Carl Lewis An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Alberto Salazar An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Albert Einstein An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Bryson An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Alan K. Simpson An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Malcolm X An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • A. J. Liebling An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • George Mikes An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Edmund Burke An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Saskya Pandita An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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  • Elbert Hubbard An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • C. Wright Mills An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.
    The Causes of World War Three (1960)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Nicholas Butler An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
    Nicholas Butler
    American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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  • Abraham Cowley An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
    And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
    Davideis, book ii, line 95. Compare: Loose his beard and hoary hair / Streamd like a meteor to the troubled air, Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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