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922 quotes by 723 authors

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself. — Peter the Great
The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is… — Linda Gordon
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions… — Frederick Leboyer
From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is… — Neil MacGregor
An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning… — Daniel Yergin
Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide. — Andrew Davidson
If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is… — Genghis Khan
If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The… — Donald Harington
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. — Gian-Carlo Rota
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until… — Jacques Hadamard
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is… — W. W. Sawyer
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is… — David Foster Wallace
It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be… — Chris Shays
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man? — Laozi
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. — V. S. Pritchett
We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them… — Lee Kuan Yew
In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an… — Isabel Colegate
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not… — Brigid Brophy
I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights. — April Winchell

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