Composed Quotes
456 quotes by 396 authors
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I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a…
— Randy Pausch
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In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as…
— Zach Braff
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Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions —…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human…
— Walter Scott
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the…
— Edward Bernays
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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.
— John Ernst Worrell Keely
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Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?
— R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
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A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but…
— George Boas
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To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far)…
— Max More
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Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the…
— Takuan Soho
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what…
— Victor Hugo
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge…
— John Drinkwater
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The healing power of medical drugs is the Ur-power of their original essence in conjunction with the power of Ur-vibrations of the human-Divine combination that…
— Rudolf John Gorsleben
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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are…
— Seneca the Younger
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over…
— Isaac Mayer Wise
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Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
— Eugene Field
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Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to…
— Brooks Atkinson
Who Wrote These Composed Quotes
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