Quotes with thing-they

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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Joubert They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Buddha They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Socrates They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Robert Burton They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • James Russell Lowell They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Charles Dickens They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Terence They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • John Morley They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • William Hazlitt They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • David Hume They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred.
    Speech 31-10-1936
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Cass Sunstein They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Seale They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Virgil They can because they think they can.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Virgil They can conquer who believe they can.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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