Further Quotes
1867 quotes by 1517 authors
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I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of…
— Malcolm X
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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to…
— H. L. Mencken
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As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my…
— Henry Adams
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If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding,…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of…
— Mark Twain
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
— Harold S. Kushner
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Activism is something that no one can fake. You get angry. You cry. But you never throw in your towel, because that anger is what…
— Leymah Gbowee
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Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to…
— Seth Godin
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From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea…
— Baruch Spinoza
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To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely…
— Ralph Bunche
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The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means…
— Petra Kelly
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men…
— Bertrand Russell
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I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and…
— James Bryant Conant
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So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what…
— George McGovern
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Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
— Bruce Lee
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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there…
— Doris Humphrey
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To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like…
— Brother Lawrence
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Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this;…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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