Set Quotes

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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are… — Henry Adams
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to… — Roseanne Barr
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at… — Joey Adams
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space… — Abu Bakar Bashir
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself… — Jean Baudrillard
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for. — Beck
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always… — Glenn Beck
If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never… — Henry Ward Beecher
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of… — Ruth Benedict
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. — Alan Bennett
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. — Jose Bergamin
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of… — John Berger
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly.… — Halle Berry
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an… — Wendell Berry
Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete… — Donald Berwick

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