Quotes with six-and-twenty

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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cameron Boyce There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Sophocles There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barbara Howar There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
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  • Charles Dickens There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Henry Ford There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
    My Best Short Stories (2014) 75
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Burton Cummings There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Erskine There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bessie Smith There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Boz Scaggs This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Anna Lindh This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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