Thousand Other Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are…
— Euripides
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[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach…
— Nehemiah Grew
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To have everything written for you It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what…
— Buddy Rich
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Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.
— Scott Ian
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The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for…
— Maurice Francis Egan
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There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
— Anabel Jensen
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If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
— Herbert Hoover
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The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the…
— John Szarkowski
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Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.
— Marcus Buckingham
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The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in…
— Michio Kaku
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other…
— Peg Bracken
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The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved,…
— Margaret Mead
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a…
— Allan Kaprow
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People are fretful about lifestyle retailing because the idea that anyone's immortal soul and deepest longings can be quite so readily anticipated and consolidated with…
— Peter York
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The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other…
— Robert Motherwell
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Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all…
— John Muir
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Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to…
— Buddy Rich
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I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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