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Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 4570.

  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Antonio Porchia Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Those who get their living by their daily labor... have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Billy Joel Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Alan Bennett Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
    Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Plato Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Nathalie Sarraute Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
    Nathalie Sarraute
    French writer (1900 - 1999)
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  • Antoni Gaudi Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
    Antoni Gaudi
    Catalan architect
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Those who love not their fellowbeings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.
    Source: Alastor
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • William Hazlitt Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • P. T. Barnum Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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