Upon Quotes
10257 quotes by 4577 authors
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John…
— Wallace Stegner
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Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
— Wendy Wasserstein
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To be successful in the family the father must have the welfare of each family member at heart and his decisions and plans must be…
— Helen Andelin
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What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here…
— Stephanie Mills
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as…
— Wilhelm II
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As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our…
— Horatio Bottomley
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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its…
— William Butler
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Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
— Nancy Reagan
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you…
— Randolph Bourne
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If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
— William Shakespeare
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion…
— William Shakespeare
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A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally…
— Victoria Woodhull
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The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
— Norman Cousins
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It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union…
— Michael Novak
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If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by…
— Stephen Hawking
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others…
— Washington Irving
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