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1306 quotes by 1030 authors
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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
— Steven Pinker
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have…
— Prince Charles
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of…
— Laozi
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Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is…
— George Wald
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of…
— David Ramsey
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For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
— Irwin Corey
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time…
— Errol Barrow
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A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done…
— Forbes Burnham
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No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be…
— Matthew Henry
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I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I…
— James McKeen Cattell
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The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
— Lucille Ball
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
— Jeanette Winterson
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When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before…
— Sun Tzu
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the…
— Sun Tzu
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A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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