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7676 Given quotes by 4565 unique authors
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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
— Werner Erhard
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Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure…
— Werner Erhard
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My education commitment is simple. I believe that every child is unique. Im going to work as hard as I know how, and Im going…
— Phil Bredesen
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Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem…
— Larry McMurtry
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Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of difference, community, and…
— Henry Giroux
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What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love…
— Harry Stack Sullivan
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The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of…
— Jacque Fresco
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The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce…
— Pope Pius IX
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If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded…
— Pope Pius IX
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
— Barbara Mandrell
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning,…
— Haile Selassie
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Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion…
— Talal Asad
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The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
— Niklaus Wirth
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Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is…
— Max Wertheimer
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Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
— Diana Vreeland
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For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like…
— David LaChapelle
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The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences of…
— Henry Hazlitt
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
— Dennis Potter
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It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed…
— Lindy Boggs
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I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from…
— Michael Vick
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The people and the news media used to call me 'The Son of Sam,' but God has given me a new name, 'The Son of…
— David Berkowitz
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I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that…
— Branch Rickey
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When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body,…
— Zig Ziglar
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I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street…
— Benjamin Graham
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