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Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 1861.

  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Abigail Van Buren True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • S. Daniel Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is a man.
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  • L. Powys Use and want make all life a commonplace thing.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Ang Lee Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Robert Collier Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Arnold Newman Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Robert Collier Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf War is a profane thing.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bubba Smith We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Salvador Dali We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • James Freeman Clarke We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Al Bengston We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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