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9547 Few quotes by 5579 unique authors
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand…
— Isaac Asimov
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Actually, there is a sense in which polygynous marriage has not been the historical norm - even where polygyny is permitted, multiple wives are generally…
— Robert Wright
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You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you…
— Rajneesh
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is…
— Rajneesh
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How can the seed know that by dying in the soil it will become a great tree? It will not be there to witness the…
— Rajneesh
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The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is…
— Peter Drucker
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Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number…
— Jack Welch
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Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing…
— Paul Brunton
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As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will…
— Rajneesh
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Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.
— Dennis Gabor
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The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a…
— Rennie Ellis
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St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under…
— Unknown Author
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Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force…
— Daniel J. King
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The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in…
— Don Frye
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In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
— Murasaki Shikibu
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You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
— George Carlin
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The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans…
— Unknown Author
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and…
— Albert Hofmann
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A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All…
— Gabor Mate
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Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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