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Quotes 6121 till 6140 of 10681.

  • James T. Mccay One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • William Ellery Channing One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Benjamin Franklin One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Jane Austen One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Bill Rancic One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Publilius Syrus One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Cass Sunstein One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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