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Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 3662.

  • George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Alexander Pope No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adam Smith No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • David Hume No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Vaclav Havel None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Betty Ford Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
    Americas most influential first ladies
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Bess Myerson Not only do I have celebrity, but I have notoriety, which is sometimes more seductive.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Arthur Cayley Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Jane Austen Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • John Ruskin Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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