Widely Quotes
348 quotes by 330 authors
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
— Douglas Adams
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Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.
— Bob Beauprez
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Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which…
— Annie Besant
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The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality,…
— Pamela Anderson
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions,…
— Sarah Schulman
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with…
— Ronald Reagan
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure…
— Whittaker Chambers
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The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
— Walter E. Williams
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... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by…
— Hans Zinsser
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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next…
— Sydney Brenner
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
— Charles Lyell
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
— Michael Polanyi
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Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his entire…
— Dan Barker
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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