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Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 5987.

  • Lord Chesterfield One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bruce Lee One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Lionel Strachey One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
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  • Benjamin Franklin One should eat to live, not live to eat.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eugene O'Neill One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Charles Dickens One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Paul Auster One should never underestimate the power of books.
    The Brooklyn Follies (2008) 139
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Hitopadesa One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Muriel Spark One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Rose Macaulay One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
    A casual commentary
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bing Gordon One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Benjamin Hoff One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
    The Tao of Pooh
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • George Eliot One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Albert Einstein One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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