Set Quotes
7944 quotes by 5058 authors
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Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front…
— Wynn Bullock
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When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
— Johnny Weissmuller
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I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to…
— Dave Barry
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Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It…
— B.F. Skinner
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Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any…
— Camille Flammarion
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
— Peter Singer
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We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The…
— David Perkins
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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of…
— Isak Dinesen
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to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century…
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve…
— Robert Cialdini
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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most…
— Barack Obama
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He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father.
— Robert D. Hales
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay…
— Simon Pegg
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Simply stated, testimony-real testimony, born of the Spirit and confirmed by the Holy Ghost-changes lives. It changes how you think and what you do. It…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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And you want to know why track and field is dying in this country? Kids today can watch Kobe Bryant go end-to-end and Randy Moss…
— Mike Penner
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved…
— Mario Puzo
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