Quotes with one-seventh

Quotes 3701 till 3720 of 5912.

  • Barry Schwartz People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Marcel Proust People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barry Marshall Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Dan Rather Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
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  • George Eliot Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Virgil Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
    The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Salman Rushdie Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
    Midnight's Children (2010) 596
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Brendan Myers Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Bill Frist Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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