Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 3221 till 3240 of 4570.

  • George Orwell The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas à Kempis The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Marquis de Sade The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Roger Von Oech The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Dale Carnegie The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Billy Corgan The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Aaron Machado The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
    Aaron Machado
     
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  • Blaise Pascal The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ben Horowitz The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Harry Browne The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • John Locke The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Eric Hoffer The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Junius The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • George Eliot The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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