Quotes with over-preoccupation

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1100.

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bell Hooks The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Mark Twain The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Barry Commoner The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Seneca The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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