Quotes with right-about-face

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1609.

  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Mark Twain The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Carson The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Jeremy Bentham The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Camille Paglia The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
    Original: Le savant n'est pas l'homme qui fournit les vraies réponses; c'est celui qui pose les vraies questions.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Donald Trump The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bre Pettis The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Milan Kundera The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Albert Einstein The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl Honore The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Epictetus The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Walter Bagehot The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Jean Dubuffet The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
    Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
    Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
    Hustling for the record machine.
    The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
    That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Alice James The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Peter F. Drucker The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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