Most Quotes
40996 Most quotes by 14971 unique authors
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
— Pliny the Elder
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Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
— Michael Broadbent
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If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.
— Ralph Marston
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known…
— June Jordan
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I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And…
— Prince Charles
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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
— Seth Godin
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The most staunchly determined are but quitters of the right things.
— Wes Fesler
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
— James A. Garfield
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.
— Evelyn Underhill
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
— Bertrand Russell
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The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the…
— Franz Cizek
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The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself…
— Unknown Author
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
— Northrop Frye
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
— Saint Augustine
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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
— Tony Buzan
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Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they…
— Nick Hornby
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Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.
— Freeman A. Hrabowski III
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Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others…
— Zig Ziglar
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I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of…
— Unknown Author
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life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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