Quotes with one-hundredth

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Hoppe Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Max Stirner Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
    Max Stirner
    German philosopher (ps. by Johan C. Schmidt) (1806 - 1856)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Coco Chanel Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Seneca Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Billy Beane Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Carrie Snow Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
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  • Dorothy Parker Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • John Keats Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Carl Sagan Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • James A. Froude Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Will and intellect are one and the same.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Felix Frankfurter Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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