Quotes with son—and

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  • Oscar Wilde Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Denis Diderot Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andre Breton Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
    Original: Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Gerda Lerner Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
    Gerda Lerner
     
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  • John G. Pollard Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
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  • Thomas Fuller Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Charles Dickens Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • William Ellery Channing Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Arthur Peacocke For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Armstrong Williams For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Aeschylus For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Boethius From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend —
    Path, motive, guide, original and end.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book III, section 9, line 27
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Denis Diderot Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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