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Quotes 101 till 120 of 1401.

  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Seneca A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Tad Williams A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • William Arthur Ward A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • David Ogilvy A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Barry Hannah A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Alexander Pope Act well your part; there all honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Blaise Pascal Admiration spoils all from infancy. Ah! How well said! Ah! How well done! How well-behaved he is! etc.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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