Quotes with one-point-zero-five

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  • Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • George F. Will All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are ''up to a point.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Clive James All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Bill Bryson All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything On the moment of creation; page 10
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bon Scott All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ben Schnetzer All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barney Ross All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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