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1223 Sentences quotes by 868 unique authors
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We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a…
— John P. Kotter
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Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence?…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to…
— Tayeb Salih
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There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will…
— Julius Streicher
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Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it…
— Brenda Ueland
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out,…
— Jeffrey Rowland
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
— J L Austin
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
— Jeffrey Zaslow
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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
— Unknown Author
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual…
— Walter Karp
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without…
— Bridget of Sweden
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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make…
— A.J. Ayer
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A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
— Jackson Pollock
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The Koran claims for itself that it is "mubeen," or clear. But if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or…
— Gerd R. Puin
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For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without…
— John Sung
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Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong.…
— Michael Ruse
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The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
— H. L. Mencken
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My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against…
— William Kidd
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed…
— Thornton Wilder
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I once asked him what came at the end of the sentence... and he said "parole".
— Bobby Heenan
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How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn…
— Philip Roth
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