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210 quotes by 191 authors

I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle… — Thomas Jefferson
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict… — Charles Tupper
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you… — Richard Branson
There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open… — Daniel Odier
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two -… — Douglas Adams
I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. — Dean Alfange
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy… — Thomas Browne
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence… — Daniel Goleman
Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to… — Dan S Kennedy
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will… — Hannah Arendt
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what… — Thornton Wilder
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may… — Joseph Priestley
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and… — Ehud Barak
The joy of viewing land, the hope of in a few days ranging through the long wished-for spot and the pleasure of again resuming my… — David Douglas
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters… — Idris Elba
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume… — Richard J. Foster

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