Quotes with one-tenth

Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 5908.

  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Lamb Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Ben Folds Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Bertrand Russell Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Horace Walpole Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Archibald Wavell No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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  • Enoch Powell No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jean Paul No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Channing Pollock No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Elbert Hubbard No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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