Quotes with set-in-stone

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  • W. Clement Stone Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
    Beatrix Potters Letters
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Bruce Springsteen That you know flag flying over the courthouse
    Means certain things are set in stone
    Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • W. Clement Stone That's why many fail - because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Barry Eichengreen The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Bruno Dumont The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
    Life of Galileo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Alistair Cooke The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • I. F. Stone The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Michael J. Mccarthy The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
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  • Brandon Cruz The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • Benedict Arnold The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
    Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Hugh Latimer The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
    Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)
    Hugh Latimer
    British bishop and Protestant martyr (1470 - 1555)
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  • Lucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Lucretius The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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