Quotes with one-seventh

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  • Bill Hicks Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • David Mitchell Speaking one language only is a prison.
    Black Swan Green (2008) 153
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bryce Harper Spirituality is something that makes you who you are on and off the field. It's something you try and live by. The way you play is one thing, but the way you act is a little different. You're just trying to be a good person, the best you can be, on and off the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Bruce Dern Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Buffalo Bill Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Brock Lesnar Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Joan Didion Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Judith Viorst Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anna Louise Strong Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • William Goldman Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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