Found Quotes
8743 Found quotes by 5106 unique authors
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I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing…
— Plutarch
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I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on,…
— Unknown Author
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Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love…
— Zhuangzi
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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be…
— Saint Augustine
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The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and consequently destitute of…
— Pliny the Elder
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I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just…
— Timothy Leary
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I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
— Dusty Springfield
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There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.
— Charles Grandison Finney
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Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found…
— Dennis F. Kinlaw
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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
— Gautama Buddha
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I just found it interesting to talk to adults I admired, and to discover that the path they took was never all that clearly defined.…
— Anderson Cooper
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What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was…
— Robbin Crosby
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships…
— Lord Byron
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The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of…
— Germaine Greer
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You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person…
— Gautama Buddha
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I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to…
— Jacob Liberman
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe…
— Gautama Buddha
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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers…
— Gautama Buddha
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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor…
— Gautama Buddha
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I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now,…
— Gautama Buddha
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
— Alan Bradley
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
— Xunzi
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I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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