Marked Quotes
451 quotes by 390 authors
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We are all born marked for evil.
— Charles Baudelaire
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where…
— Tony Blair
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The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long…
— Eric Cantona
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The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the…
— Coleman Dowell
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
— Mark Twain
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
— Alexander Smith
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation,…
— Bill McKibben
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Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of…
— Ernest Rutherford
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Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps…
— Nils Kjaer
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Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?
— Bette Midler
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The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another…
— Marianne Williamson
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of…
— Arthur Balfour
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That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
— John Dewey
Who Wrote These Marked Quotes
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