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5201 quotes by 2976 authors
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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some…
— Winston Churchill
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To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was…
— William Vickrey
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My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I…
— Richard Branson
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I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns…
— Valerie Harper
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I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".
— W. Edwards Deming
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Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,…
— Mao Zedong
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To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out…
— Oprah Winfrey
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right…
— Jane Smiley
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The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to…
— Oswald Chambers
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They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the…
— Max Muller
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This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley…
— Warren G. Bennis
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"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
— Jack Kerouac
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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even…
— Jean Baudrillard
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If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United…
— Ronald Reagan
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our…
— Otis Williams
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