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Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 8624.

  • Jack Canfield Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
    Jack Canfield
    American author and motivational speaker (1944 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Hugo Ball Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • Thomas Malthus Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XIX, 15, 1
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Samuel Butler Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Morley Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bethenny Frankel Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Heinrich Heine Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Henry James Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • C. S. Lewis Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Barry Diller Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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