Several Quotes
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Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us…
— Nathaniel Branden
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We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase…
— Will Keith Kellogg
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Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry,…
— David Hume
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
— William Styron
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The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the…
— Gardiner Spring
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He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
— Simone Weil
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We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort…
— Barack Obama
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We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never…
— Mark Twain
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What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .
— Steve Ballmer
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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
— Mark Twain
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I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
— Jack Handey
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I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a…
— Srikumar Rao
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Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps.…
— Joseph Butler
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One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that…
— Henry Norris Russell
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I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.
— Casey Stengel
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You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore,…
— D. C. Fontana
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If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
— Unknown Author
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