Countless Quotes
467 quotes by 402 authors
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We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown…
— Rachel Kushner
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Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote…
— Gene Lees
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The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to…
— Charles Petzold
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All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult,…
— John Calvin
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I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain.…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should…
— Terence Tao
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When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse "I don't know where to start" is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available…
— Hal Elrod
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There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary…
— Wendell Berry
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this…
— Dave Barry
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Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely…
— Steven Pressfield
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And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one…
— Saint Patrick
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Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place…
— Frederick Lenz
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Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms.…
— Frederick Lenz
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You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.
— Frederick Lenz
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Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder…
— John Paul Caponigro
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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen…
— Joseph Sobran
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