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Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 6002.

  • Alberto Giacometti I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Gloria Steinem I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
    Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2012) 887
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • John Galsworthy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Jim Rohn Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Jean Paul Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Rachel Carson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Bryan Greenberg If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Bernard Crick If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
    Source: In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Brody Jenner If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.
    Source: Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 5 December 1859
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aaron Copland If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
    Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Albrecht Durer If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddha If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ben Goldacre If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • St. Francis of Assisi If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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