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7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for… — Rajneesh
We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport. — Alberto Salazar
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and… — Duke Ellington
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. — Chico Hamilton
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or… — Samuel Johnson
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There… — Paul Robeson
To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as… — Hermann Joseph Muller
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. — Charles Kettering
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know,… — Madeleine L'Engle
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking… — Toni Morrison
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way… — A J Muste
In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples… — Herbert Read
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire. — Franz Grillparzer
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. — Osbert Sitwell
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan.… — Joseph Brodsky
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia,… — Eugene V. Debs
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. — Mark Twain
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of… — Christopher Hitchens
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice… — Bertrand Russell
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on… — Robert Southey
Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things… — Annie Lennox
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. — John Desmond Bernal
I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead. — Albert Einstein
Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions… — William James
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena… — William James

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