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7493 Either quotes by 4469 unique authors
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A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return…
— Salman Rushdie
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I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to…
— Toni Morrison
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Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as…
— Thomas Paine
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There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a…
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just…
— Edward Bok
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We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear…
— Tony Blair
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Either a beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was…
— John Dryden
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Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
— Aristotle
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Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say…
— Cus D'Amato
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Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity,…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
— Jack Adams
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I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or…
— Dave Navarro
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Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere…
— Anish Kapoor
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and…
— Betty White
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he…
— Archibald MacLeish
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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
— Boethius
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Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we…
— Ben Okri
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