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4656 Among quotes by 2816 unique authors
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When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your…
— Linus Pauling
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We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex…
— Linus Pauling
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What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? Â What I tried to leave my students with is the view…
— Lawrence Summers
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All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
— Stefan Zweig
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
— Leonard Peikoff
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To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Cancers of all types among women are increasing
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility toward it may…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to…
— Joe Haldeman
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There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold…
— Steven Erikson
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I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may…
— James F. Cooper
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How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!
— Thomas Cole
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you…
— Rob Bell
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In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot…
— Giuseppe Peano
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Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. Â It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name…
— Brennan Manning
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Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one…
— Lester Bangs
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It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the…
— David Brainerd
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It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching
— John Ruskin
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I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something…
— Mary Stewart
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Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English…
— Michael Swanwick
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So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into…
— Terence McKenna
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Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and…
— Simon Bolivar
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