Twenty Five Quotes
187 quotes by 170 authors
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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
— James Madison
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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with…
— Arthur Koestler
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
— Mary Antin
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The idea that I would ever end up on David Letterman or Jay Leno is horrifying. I am such a freak in comparison to most…
— Jared Leto
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I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a…
— Roger Maris
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Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages…
— Eric S. Raymond
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Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma.
— Anagarika Dharmapala
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I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind,…
— Don King
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
— Edward Abbey
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Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words…
— C. J. Mahaney
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It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the United States. Twenty-five…
— Sidney Robertson Cowell
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Now, just think, to accuse me of such a crime. Think of it! I, who have for twenty-five years single- handed struggled against the invasion…
— Jacob Schiff
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There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged…
— Stephen Mitchell
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I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was…
— Harry Stack Sullivan
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All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging…
— Bayard Rustin
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When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
— Scott Joplin
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Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then…
— Marcus Miller
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The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty…
— Milton Friedman
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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind.…
— Tana French
Who Wrote These Twenty Five Quotes
170 authors contributed a total of 187 Twenty Five Quotes, led by these top contributors: