Quotes with twenty-one

Quotes 5141 till 5160 of 5987.

  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Jean Rostand To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Alexander Chase To remain young one must change.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Victor Hugo To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Karl von Bonstetten To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
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  • Barbara Deming To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Tryon Edwards To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ayn Rand To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
    In Front of Your Nose (1946)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Steiner To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Alexander Smith To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Wayne Dyer To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Bob Rae To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Benjamin Jowett To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Plato To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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