Often Made Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
— William Hazlitt
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The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
— Thomas Sowell
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Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment…
— Tony Attwood
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To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns,…
— Garry Kasparov
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Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal…
— Phil Vischer
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The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if…
— Emmet Fox
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...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were…
— Gore Vidal
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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
— Robert Graves
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
— Victor Hugo
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain…
— Michel de Montaigne
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As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.
— Mary E. DeMuth
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Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.
— Roman Coppola
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Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and…
— Horatio Nelson
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The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry…
— Joss Whedon
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The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak…
— Steve Martin
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But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the…
— Mary Balogh
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