Succumbed Quotes
37 quotes by 34 authors
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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
— Violet Trefusis
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No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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This is an issue just like 9-11... We didn't decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought…
— Rick Santorum
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It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is…
— Francois Guizot
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Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts,…
— Tammy Bruce
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How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism…
— Adolf Hitler
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I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever…
— Richard Branson
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Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace…
— Rod Serling
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Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
— Seneca the Younger
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I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at…
— Dale Carnegie
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One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your…
— Noam Chomsky
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not…
— Viera Scheibner
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In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must…
— Claude Bernard
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He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater…
— Brigham Young
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I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy…
— Christopher Owens
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with…
— Abraham Verghese
Who Wrote These Succumbed Quotes
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