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Quotes 2941 till 2960 of 25160.

  • Jean de la Bruyère As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Elie Wiesel As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame.
    Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Ben Horowitz As long as people are clear on what they need to do and what's going on, you're very likely to succeed. When nobody is clear, then you're guaranteed to fail.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Ben Harper As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Hawkesworth As love without esteem is volatile and capricious; esteem without love is languid and cold.
    The Adventurer, No. 36 (10 March 1753)
    John Hawkesworth
    English writer and book editor (1715 - 1773)
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  • Ernst Fischer As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
    Ernst Fischer
    Austrian journalist, writer and politician (1899 - 1972)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Calamity Jane As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Bertil Ohlin As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Cameron Bright As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold As much as I hate to say it, what I'm coming to realize is that all we're really able to do is put the brakes on. Imagine going real fast in a Flintstones car, and my heel is out there. I went to Washington to change the world, and all I can do is put my heel out.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bo Sanchez As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Basil Rathbone As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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