Among Quotes
4656 Among quotes by 2816 unique authors
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We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take…
— Unknown Author
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Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all…
— Stephen Ambrose
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Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you. See these noble gifts in other people. Share…
— Charlene Costanzo
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I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there…
— Stephen F Olford
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Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
— Helen Simonson
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These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple…
— Don Berliner
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... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
— George Howe Colt
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It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,…
— William Kittredge
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Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
— Diana Butler Bass
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When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them…
— Steven Kotler
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Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship…
— Gary Steiner
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Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the…
— Nick Cohen
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Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible…
— Tom Standage
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right…
— Eula Biss
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John Colman Wood's The Names of Things is a thoughtful, patient, and ultimately rewarding book. It's about, among many other things, the connections human beings…
— Peter Orner
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Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.
— Gautama Buddha
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We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world…
— Vijay Prashad
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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite…
— George Eliot
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Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)
— John F. Kennedy
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We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
— Ronald Reagan
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I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation…
— Herbert Hoover
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We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs…
— John F. Kennedy
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