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8811 His quotes by 4969 unique authors
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To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people…
— Michael Haneke
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Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing…
— John Legend
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
— Charles Lindbergh
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or…
— Stendhal
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
— Propertius
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That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
— Gloria Allred
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I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.
— Kato Kaelin
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In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy…
— David Brin
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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before…
— John Buford
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
— Rex Stout
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Every man of courage is a man of his word.
— Pierre Corneille
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his…
— Demosthenes
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
— Demosthenes
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
— Carol Ann Duffy
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
— Adam Michnik
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a…
— James Schuyler
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
— Stanislaw Lem
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all,…
— Margaret Cavendish
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The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more…
— Eliza Haywood
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