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Quotes 881 till 900 of 1724.

  • Elbert Hubbard Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Abraham Cowley Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil. Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman run away.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Albert Bandura Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • C. S. Lewis Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Blake Farenthold My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cannes film festival, and people were booing afterwards.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Harper My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Brendan Myers My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Alain de Botton My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Brendan Myers My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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