Quotes with urged

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• A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

  Claude D. Pepper
  American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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• I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.

  Anne Tyler
  American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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• It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

  Adam Weishaupt
  German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.

  B. F. Skinner
  American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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• When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

  Barbara Amiel
  British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• circumstance
• constitution
• superstition
• backslapping
• counterfeit
• inevitable

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