Kept Quotes
2728 quotes by 2033 authors
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Efforts to protect critical computer networks have unfortunately not kept pace with the march of technology.
— Jon Kyl
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them would prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
— Marilyn French
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We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
— Robert Breault
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no…
— George Herbert
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which…
— Rosalind Franklin
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Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul…
— John Owen
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Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
— Bertrand Russell
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If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch…
— Charles Lindbergh
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One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
— Russell Pearce
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It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's…
— Pat Robertson
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The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a…
— Henri Nouwen
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the…
— E. O. Wilson
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I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never…
— Elisabeth Moss
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Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking…
— Denis Leary
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