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Quotes 7481 till 7500 of 10591.

  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Andy Warhol The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
    September 1999
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Richard Dawkins The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
    Storage and Stability Preface, p. vii
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Campbell Newman The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Andrew Vachss The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • David Hume The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
    A Treatise of Human Nature
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Umberto Eco The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Alvin Toffler The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Marquis de Sade The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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