Quotes with twenty-three

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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alcee Hastings If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Charles De Montesquieu If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Adolf Galland If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Caitlin Moran If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Beth Gutcheon If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
    Beth Gutcheon
     
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  • Simone Weil Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Henry Watton In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
    Henry Watton
     
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  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg In everyday life, I'm pretty much T-shirt and jeans guy - a soft LnA shirt, cool APC jeans, Nikes or Jordans. If I'm going to an event I like to wear a suit, sometimes a three-piece. I'm into brands like Simon Spurr - I think he makes great suits - and Dior Homme.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde In married life three is company two is none.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernadette Peters In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Jean Rostand In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Camille Paglia In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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