Main Quotes
2069 quotes by 1600 authors
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Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural…
— Donna J. Haraway
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Experience is the main reason why we`re here, I think, in the world -- to gain experience. And from our experience we gain knowledge ...…
— George Harrison
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's…
— Ikue Mori
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The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is…
— Peter Hammill
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Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main…
— Ismail Merchant
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Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main…
— David Rudisha
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Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism.…
— Roger Lowenstein
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are…
— Carrie P Snow
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Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at…
— Elizabeth Sims
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Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a…
— Elizabeth Sims
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As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'You don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.' That's the main thing.…
— Pat Burns
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not…
— Godfrey Reggio
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be…
— Natan Sharansky
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The main thing is not to be dead.
— Robert Motherwell
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.
— Heinz Guderian
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The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for…
— Konosuke Matsushita
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Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street,…
— Gatewood Galbraith
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