Quotes with under-motivated

Quotes 401 till 420 of 469.

  • Adlai Stevenson II Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Sir William Osler Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Adam Ferguson We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • John F. Kennedy We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carolyn Maloney We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bill Bryson We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Hiller We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Henry Fielding We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
    Joseph Andrews preface
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Henry Fielding We endeavour to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Callum McDougall We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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  • Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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