Whereas Quotes
1000 Whereas quotes by 809 unique authors
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Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of…
— Jared Diamond
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I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and…
— Andie MacDowell
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Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.
— Daniel H. Pink
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Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle…
— Daniel Pipes
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In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would…
— Richard Masur
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When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance…
— Peace Pilgrim
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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different…
— Frederick Lenz
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You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you…
— Ricky Gervais
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I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents…
— Amy Chua
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but…
— Vera Nazarian
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The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves…
— Heraclitus
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is…
— Alain Badiou
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I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows…
— Criss Jami
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A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
— Criss Jami
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It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent.…
— Criss Jami
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That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
— Samuel Beckett
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When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist…
— Desmond Tutu
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who…
— Karl Marx
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