Due Quotes
1426 quotes by 1156 authors
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons;…
— Mary Astell
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due…
— David Attenborough
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and…
— Spencer Bachus
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth…
— Johnny Ball
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is…
— Mortimer Adler
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The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went…
— Justin Bieber
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose…
— Buffalo Bill
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the…
— Larry Bird
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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your…
— Edward de Bono
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
— Hal Borland
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
— William J. Brennan
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This…
— Vince Cable
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They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer…
— Anne Campbell
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
— Truman Capote
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and…
— Willa Cather
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