Quotes with one-hundredth

Quotes 4521 till 4540 of 5906.

  • Adam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bernard De Voto The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Martin Luther King The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bud Grant The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Aldous Huxley The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Freeman Dyson The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • James Baldwin The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Margaret Drabble The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ezra Pound The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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