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7249 Least quotes by 4306 unique authors
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I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother was suggesting that…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart…
— Angelina Jolie
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical…
— Dalai Lama
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At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
— Hector Berlioz
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing…
— Alan Greenspan
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
— William Wordsworth
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I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.
— Jeff Beck
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A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
— Nanette Newman
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera…
— Karl Landsteiner
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to…
— Unknown Author
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Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of…
— Kenny Smith
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Bertrand Russell had given a talk on the then new quantum mechanics, of whose wonders he was most appreciative. He spoke hard and earnestly in…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot…
— Carl Sagan
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Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems…
— Carl Sagan
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years…
— Paulo Coelho
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
— Samuel Johnson
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