Quotes with things-blocking

Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 2349.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Michel de Certeau The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Assata Shakur The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bodhidharma The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
    Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Norman O. Brown The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Buddy DeSylva The moon belongs to everyone;
    The best things in life are free.
    The stars belong to everyone;
    They gleam there for you and me.
    Source: Song: The Best Things in Life are Free
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • Anatole Broyard The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alphonse Karr The more things change, the more they remain the same.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Lucille Ball The more things you do, the more you can do.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Mark Twain The more things you forbid, the more popular they become.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Umberto Eco The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
    Source: De slinger van Foucault (2007)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Anna C. Brackett The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.
    Anna C. Brackett
    American philosopher and feminist
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  • William Dean Howells The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Bob Mayer The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Stephen King The most important things are the hardest to say.
    Source: Different Seasons (2016) 309
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Brandan Behan The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
    Brandan Behan
     
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  • André Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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