Often Used Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
— Jane Austen
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one…
— John Berger
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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.
— Marquis de Custine
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Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be…
— John Tukey
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Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities.…
— John L'Heureux
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
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I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take]…
— George Soros
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if…
— Alec Guinness
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the…
— Tim Ferriss
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Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing…
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
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The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.
— William Kristol
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They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for…
— John Marsden
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A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public…
— Victor Wooten
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Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as…
— Simon Mainwaring
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Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of…
— Marquis de Custine
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Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
— Dario Fo
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Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert…
— Eugen Kogon
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