Raised Quotes
1788 Raised quotes by 1392 unique authors
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Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is…
— George Stigler
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I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on…
— Frank Zappa
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Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs,…
— Mao Zedong
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...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans are simply strangled by extremism.…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons. The possession of a good rifle,…
— Jeff Cooper
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
— Charles Dickens
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I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
— Marlene Dietrich
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Though it's a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice…
— Yash Chopra
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
— Wendell Berry
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It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare…
— Thomas Paine
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Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.
— Paul Engle
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I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use…
— Debby Ryan
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Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us…
— Michelle Obama
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I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in…
— Drew Carey
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To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my…
— Mark Sanchez
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My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd…
— Vincent Gallo
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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