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Quotes 2961 till 2980 of 4570.

  • Algernon Sydney Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Charles Dickens Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • James A. Froude Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Pope Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bob Uecker Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Emily Dickinson Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Lord George Byron Suspicion is a heavy armour, and I with its own weight impedes more than protects.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Shakespeare Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Eliot Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately.
    Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • William Shakespeare t is the curse of kings to be attended. By slaves that take their humours for a warrant
    Source: King John IV, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Erica Jong Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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