Quotes with stands

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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Ayn Rand It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Casey Stengel It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Wendell Phillips Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • William Hazlitt Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • John Oxenham Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives - to give, and give, and give.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Alfred Jodl My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Minor White No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Burgess Owens On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bob Ney Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Rupert Brooke Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Tacitus The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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