Almost Without Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who…
— Booker T. Washington
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we…
— Amby Burfoot
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Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits…
— Friedrich Ratzel
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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of…
— Don Kates
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Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain,…
— Pope Francis
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in…
— David Ricardo
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees,…
— Paul Sarbanes
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have…
— Andrew Jackson
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
— Bill W.
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From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also…
— Michael Palin
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We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide…
— Maria Montessori
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No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who…
— Gertrude Stein
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Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of…
— Richard Whately
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We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
— Carl Sagan
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Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back…
— Barbara Mertz
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