Quotes with over-confidence

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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bobby Scott The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bob Riley The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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  • Bill Kristol The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq has been won decisively and honorably.
    April 28, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The fog comes
    on little cat feet.
    It sits looking
    over the harbor and city
    on silent haunches, and then moves on.
    Fog (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Yogi Berra The game isn't over until it's over.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Eric Hoffer The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cyril Connolly The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Basil Hume The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William James The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Leon Trotsky The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Oscar Wilde The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Wallace Stevens The imagination is man's power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Karl Kraus The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Margot Asquith The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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