Best Celebrated Wisdom
277 Celebrated quotes by 246 unique authors
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I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
— Rachel Weisz
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
— Lawrence Welk
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.
— Evgeny Morozov
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And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even…
— Winston Churchill
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Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves…
— Bell Hooks
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Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that…
— Walter Moers
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried…
— David McCullough
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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday…
— Ronald Reagan
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It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound horrible, ... They…
— Bjork
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Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all…
— Jean Vanier
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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every…
— Jane Austen
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In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one…
— Barack Obama
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Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice.…
— Eduardo Galeano
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In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned…
— Ian Mcewan
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For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales…
— Clarice Lispector
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and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
— Charles Dickens
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...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is…
— Gina Barreca
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the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
— Dan Brown
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If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon…
— James Howard Kunstler
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A disciple came to the celebrated Master of the Good Name with a question. “Rabbi, how are we to distinguish between a true master and…
— Elie Wiesel
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From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since…
— Dan Brown
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It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were…
— Jon Stewart
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I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily…
— Christopher Isherwood
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