Quotes with one-seventh

Quotes 5841 till 5860 of 5912.

  • Thomas Fuller Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Amy Tan No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Bill Walton No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Andre Breton No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Elbert Hubbard One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Helen Keller One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Simone Weil One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Pablo Picasso One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Hermann Hesse One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Elias Canetti One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Elias Canetti One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Albert Schweitzer One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Martin Luther King One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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