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1595 Finds quotes by 1148 unique authors
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
— Ronald Reagan
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
— Christopher Reeve
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
— Bertrand Russell
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
— Franz Schubert
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a…
— Walter Scott
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There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
— Walter Scott
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal…
— Haile Selassie
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
— William Shakespeare
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Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
— Georg Simmel
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One finds limits by pushing them.
— Herbert Simon
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A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole…
— Rudolf Steiner
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one…
— Thomas Szasz
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we…
— Johannes Tauler
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
— Dylan Thomas
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the…
— Peter Ustinov
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