Matched Quotes
109 quotes by 104 authors
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Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the…
— Greg Gutfeld
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The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically…
— Brennan Manning
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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
— Ernestine Rose
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The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of…
— Daniel Dennett
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting…
— Barbara Deming
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from…
— Warwick Davis
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I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I'd wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint…
— Carrie Ann Inaba
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The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
— Jeff Miller
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In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound…
— Frederick Buechner
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Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Flow occurs in your life when your highest skills are matched to challenges that quite exactly meet them.
— Martin Seligman
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But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my…
— John Heilpern
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I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple.
— Elsa Peretti
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
— Jack Kemp
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
— T. Boone Pickens
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One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting -…
— Evgeny Morozov
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