Quotes with two-and-twenty

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  • William Shakespeare What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calista Flockhart What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bill Laswell What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
    Bill Laswell
    American bass guitarist (1955 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ursula K. LeGuin What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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  • Paul Goodman When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Voltaire When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Voltaire When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Betty Ford When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Adam Weishaupt When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Confucius When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -this is knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Carolina Herrera When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Lillian Smith When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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