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Quotes 941 till 960 of 1724.

  • Robert A. Heinlein No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Agnes de Mille No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Edmund Burke Nobody made ??a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Brene Brown Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Demosthenes Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • John Milton Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Mark Twain Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Brandon Sanderson Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
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    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Bill Watterson Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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