Quotes with quarters

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  • Carolus Linnaeus A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
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  • Simone Weil Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alice Hamilton It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Anne Seward To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Gioacchino Antonio Rossini Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bobby Flay When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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