Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • St. Thomas Aquinas To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Erica Jong To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Swami Vivekananda We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
    Swami Vivekananda
    Hindu philosopher (1863 - 1902)
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  • Confucius We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Joel Rosenberg We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Yann Martel You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 'Frank and explicit', that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Big Bank Hank 'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
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  • Bill Clinton (George H. W. Bush) won't take the lead in protecting the environment and creating new jobs in environmental technologies for the 21st century, but I will. And you know what else? He doesn't have Al Gore, and I do.
    A Place Called Hope, speech to the 1992 Democratic National Convention accepting the Democratic nomination for President (July 16, 1992)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak A candle burned on the table, a candle burned... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Dickey A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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  • Nancy Lopez A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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  • W. H. Auden A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bo Bennett A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Francoise Sagan A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Barry Goldwater A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Robert Frost A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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