Quotes with set-in-stone

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  • Horace Mann Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Joseph Addison Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Santayana Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Robert J. Mckain Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • Horace Mann Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Horace While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bailey Chase 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Ben Horowitz A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Bobby Flay A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • William Hazlitt A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
    Round table
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Publilius Syrus A rolling stone can gather no moss.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • John D. Mcdonald A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Frank Dane A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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