Greatest Possible Quotes
49 quotes by 47 authors
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
— Steven Biko
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But when you come right down to it, the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies…
— Joyce Cary
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
— Oscar Wilde
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I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence and honor for the most holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom…
— Francis of Assisi
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The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This…
— Max Weber
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
— John Stuart Mill
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Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of…
— George Soros
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The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group.…
— Charles August Lindbergh
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The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent…
— Ernest Rutherford
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this…
— Simone Weil
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Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely…
— Auberon Waugh
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
— Marcus Buckingham
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The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
— Steven Brust
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What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most…
— Gerhard
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The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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