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4656 Among quotes by 2816 unique authors
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
— Abdul Kalam
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And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must…
— Richard Baxter
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are…
— Anthony Hecht
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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
— Victor Hugo
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Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what…
— Clive James
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And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray…
— Robert E. Lee
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In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead
— Jackie Stewart
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No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an…
— Nelson Mandela
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Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish
— Charles Reznikoff
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The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter,…
— Maximilien Robespierre
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I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples…
— Sally Mann
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
— William Feather
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He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk…
— William J. Clinton
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the…
— Charles Lindbergh
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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
— Confucius
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Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.
— Donald L. Hallstrom
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no…
— Thomas More
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I bet most of us have experienced at some point the joys of less: college - in your dorm, traveling - in a hotel room,…
— Graham Hill
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Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks…
— Maurice Samuel
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
— Thomas More
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Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives…
— Peter Medawar
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