Indeed Quotes
2942 quotes by 1791 authors
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He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that…
— Patrick Henry
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Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned,…
— Terry Pratchett
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My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast…
— Henry James
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In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the…
— Margaret Sanger
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The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
— Margaret Sanger
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Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations…
— Eugene V. Debs
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The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is…
— Carl Jung
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If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of…
— Carl Jung
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We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our…
— Thucydides
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Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to…
— Thucydides
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It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice,…
— Plutarch
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain…
— John von Neumann
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
— Alexander Pushkin
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I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My…
— Mitt Romney
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