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Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 2349.

  • Ralph Richardson The most precious things in speech are pauses.
    Ralph Richardson
    English actor (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Mark Twain The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aeschylus The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Benjamin Watson The only one who can change the heart of man is the Lord. And that will make us want to make things fair for other people.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Wilde The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Camille Paglia The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
    Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Al Unser The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Ansel Adams The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Jean Rostand The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Harry S. Truman The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • H.G. Wells The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Juvenal The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Bush The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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