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30510 Great quotes by 12163 unique authors
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and…
— Mario Batali
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
— Charles Baudelaire
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work…
— Scott Adams
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
— Joseph Addison
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
— Joseph Addison
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of…
— Joseph Addison
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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Habit is a great deadener.
— Samuel Beckett
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Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to…
— David Beckham
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I…
— Victoria Beckham
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
— Thomas Beecham
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The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
— Catharine Beecher
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
— Max Beerbohm
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
— Joseph Addison
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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