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Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 2742.

  • Lord Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bill Williams Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • B.W. Richardson Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.
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  • Ben Shapiro Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Mark Twain Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Dos Pasos Procrastination is the thief of time.
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  • Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Félix Lope de Vega Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
    Félix Lope de Vega
    Spanish playwright and poet (1562 - 1635)
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  • Irving Layton Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Plutarch Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • John Milton Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John Berger Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Angela Davis Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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