Quotes with one-third

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  • George Santayana The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • E. M. Cioran The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Joan Didion The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bobby Orr The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Nikola Tesla The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bill Gates The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Source: Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Sir William Temple The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    Source: The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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