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17188 quotes by 7115 authors
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by…
— Blaise Pascal
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.
— Laozi
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
— Samuel Pepys
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind…
— Walter Bagehot
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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in…
— William Howard Taft
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what…
— Charles Dickens
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because…
— Nicolas Walter
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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
— Margaret Atwood
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Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding…
— Rajneesh
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He…
— Lin Yutang
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where…
— Wilhelm II
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I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The majority of the people are…
— Morris K. Jessup
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Disrespect cannot be commanded, it must be earned.
— Matthew Taberner
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
— Sylvia Plath
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