Quotes with solid

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  • Abu Bakr Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • André Maurois Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Alan Coren Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist (1938 - 2007)
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  • Mark Twain Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Salman Rushdie The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bhagat Singh The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Steinbeck The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • Bill Gates The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Winston Churchill They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sallust To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alan Greenspan To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Edward Teller When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
    Edward Teller
    American physicist (1908 - 2003)
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