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501 quotes by 408 authors
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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because…
— William H. Seward
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A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
— C.S. Lewis
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But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events…
— David Hume
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Ever since ADCC 2003 people come up to me and say, ‘Did you see your bracket? It’s the toughest one there is!’ And I always…
— Marcelo Garcia
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged…
— Lance Armstrong
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Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried
— Yogi Berra
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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
— Quentin Crisp
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The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
— Simone Weil
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or…
— Louis Pasteur
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I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's…
— Sophie Kinsella
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I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to…
— Robert Pozen
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A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of…
— Aristotle
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... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science…
— Paul Theroux
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
— Dante Alighieri
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain…
— Joseph Campbell
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You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.
— Dan Hill
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