Combined Quotes
507 Combined quotes by 450 unique authors
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One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
— Noam Chomsky
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More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.
— Fred Brooks
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The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be…
— Antonio Gramsci
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To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would…
— Lukas Foss
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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to…
— Juan Goytisolo
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
— Ken MacLeod
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In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo,…
— Vinod Khosla
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
— Salman Rushdie
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But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so…
— Wayne Gretzky
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When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients…
— Rudolph Ballentine
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And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and…
— Naomi Klein
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate…
— Warren G. Harding
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Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between…
— Edward Hirsch
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Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
— Robert Breault
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Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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
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The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to…
— Paul Billheimer
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Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have…
— Henri Nouwen
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way…
— Gloria Steinem
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To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
— Joseph Joubert
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Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined…
— John McCain
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The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of…
— David L. Katz
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