Used Quotes
10481 Used quotes by 6288 unique authors
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I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do between 1 and 3 am…
— Eric Asimov
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Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He…
— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you…
— Unknown Author
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I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the…
— Vladimir Putin
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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
— William Ralph Inge
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It used to bother me when people called me a pussy. But the joke's on them - after all, you are what you eat!
— Jon Schmidt
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In your body, there exists a subtle current of electricity, very subtle. But the subtler it is, the deeper it goes. It is not very…
— Rajneesh
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I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."
— Rita Rudner
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The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part…
— Chris Hedges
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Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people
— Ron Holland
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved…
— Mario Puzo
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The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with…
— Rick Warren
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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no…
— Herbert Spencer
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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the…
— Noam Chomsky
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We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area,…
— Vladimir Putin
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I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good…
— Tim Allen
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It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to…
— Michael Douglas
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Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
— Bill Bryson
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They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we make decisions based on: "How…
— Jane Goodall
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As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when…
— Harrison Schmitt
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The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new…
— Barack Obama
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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and…
— Stephen Hawking
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