Seven Quotes
1741 Seven quotes by 1385 unique authors
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The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man
— Aristotle
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
— Robert Breault
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Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
— Carl Sagan
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Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.
— Wil Wheaton
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
— Mark Twain
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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,…
— Rajneesh
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LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why…
— Wallace Stevens
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The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor…
— Og Mandino
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The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
— Robert Breault
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound…
— Charles Dickens
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most…
— T. Harv Eker
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
— Samuel Johnson
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For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.
— T. Harv Eker
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than…
— Lewis Thomas
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant…
— Hippocrates
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[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly…
— Jacob Bronowski
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You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or…
— Michael Faraday
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On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he…
— Arthur Eddington
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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
— Mark Twain
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