Widely Quotes
348 Widely quotes by 319 unique authors
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It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski…
— Cintra Wilson
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But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki…
— Peter Cosgrove
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FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
— Bill Phillips
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history,…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are…
— David Suzuki
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No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if…
— Isaac Asimov
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A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. .…
— Anthony Burgess
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To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is…
— Bill O'Reilly
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The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is…
— Frederick Douglass
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We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is…
— Pope John Paul II
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
— Clara Barton
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely…
— Jimmy Webb
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The…
— Albert Einstein
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It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature
— Eric S. Raymond
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
— Tom Jones
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Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a…
— Ann Coulter
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What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are…
— Unknown Author
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It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So…
— Peter van Inwagen
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What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see…
— Rebecca Goldstein
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he…
— Hesketh Pearson
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I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the…
— Mitt Romney
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Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in…
— Swami Vivekananda
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