Quotes with stands

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  • Karl Kraus The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • John Ruskin The higher a man stands, the more the word ''vulgar'' becomes unintelligible to him.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • C. L. R. James The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • I Ching The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Thomas Paine The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Martin Luther King The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Euripides There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Frost Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Cohn To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
    Arthur Cohn
    American film producer (1927 - )
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