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Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 2906.

  • Sir Edwin Arnold Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • Robert Collier Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Ben Parr Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Emma Goldman Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Clinton Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
    First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Beckett Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Blaise Pascal Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bert McCracken Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Billy Beane Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Mark Twain Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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