Quotes with sure-thing

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  • Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Barack Obama On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Billy Graham Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bernadette Devlin One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bob Marley One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.
    Trenchtown Rock
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • C. S. Lewis One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
    Christian Apologetics (1945)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Callie Khouri One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Barry Mann One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Lee One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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