Than Quotes
17300 Than quotes by 8648 unique authors
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
— Quintilian
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be…
— Elias Canetti
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It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
— Maria W. Stewart
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Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
— A J P Taylor
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We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
— Douglas Engelbart
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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
— John Perry Barlow
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One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
— Lyn Nofziger
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
— Plautus
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
— Warren Spahn
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In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
— Andrew Wiles
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I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
— Heinz Pagels
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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been…
— Charles Babbage
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man…
— Archibald MacLeish
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you…
— Heraclitus
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
— Saadi
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
— Gerald Brenan
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Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
— John B. S. Haldane
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America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
— Charlotte Bunch
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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
— Adolf Hitler
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I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really
— Andy Grove
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We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.
— Ray Kroc
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