Quotes with twenty-one

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John W. Gardner True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Stendhal True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Alexander Pope True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • James Baldwin True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Albert Einstein True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Albert Camus Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Virgil Trust one who has tried.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • René Daumal Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Confucius Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?'' The Master said, ''Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Beilby Porteus Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Billy Bennett Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
    So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
    And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
    Your green tie for my little yellow dog.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Ansel Adams Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Emily Carr Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Abraham Polonsky Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Brad Gilbert Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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