Noted Quotes
162 quotes by 151 authors
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.
— Stephen Ambrose
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.
— Sun Tzu
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A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
— David Niven
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and…
— George S. Patton
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has…
— Stephen Fry
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Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then…
— Charles Francis Richter
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If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men,…
— Marshall Field
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the…
— Michael Shermer
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The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of…
— Ronald Takaki
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If everything is noted, all your emotional difficulties will disappear. When you feel happy, don't get involved in happiness. When you feel sad, don't get…
— Dipa Ma
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While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the photographs brought back…
— John F. Kennedy
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to…
— Nathaniel Borenstein
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I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are…
— Carl Jung
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The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight,…
— Remy de Gourmont
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When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it…
— Tony Attwood
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