Quotes with thoroughly

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  • George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Salvador Dali Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Blake Farenthold My subcommittee will be thoroughly investigating this issue and demanding answers from Census officials on allegations that the Census Bureau is changing the wording of survey questions used to determine our nation's annual report on health insurance coverage.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Robert Southey No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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  • Walter Savage Landor No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • Barbara Rosenblat Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • John Ruskin Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Karl Mannheim Only when we are thoroughly aware of the limited scope of every point of view, are we on the road to the sought-for comprehension of the whole.
    Karl Mannheim
    Jewish-Hungarian sociologist (1893 - 1947)
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  • Francis Bacon Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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