Quotes with twenty-first

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1616.

  • Oliver Goldsmith The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Bertrand Russell The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bruce Sutter The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Brene Brown The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Billy Collins The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Arthur Keith The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Confucius The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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