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3313 quotes by 2300 authors
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good…
— Aristotle
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on…
— Chinua Achebe
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their…
— Teresa of Avila
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's,…
— Charles Babbage
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
— Richard Bach
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
— Michael Bay
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
— Konrad Adenauer
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let…
— Mortimer Adler
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I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
— Buffalo Bill
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It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow…
— Juliette Binoche
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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
— Aesop
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data.…
— David Boies
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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll…
— Erma Bombeck
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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