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Quotes 4721 till 4740 of 6176.

  • Abbe Pierre The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Aldous Huxley The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Freeman Dyson The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • James Baldwin The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernie Worrell The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Margaret Drabble The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ezra Pound The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The real way of living is to answer to one's wants.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ben Bradlee The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Wolfe The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Doug Larson The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Lord George Byron The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sister Elizabeth Kenny The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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  • Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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