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4249 Works quotes by 2912 unique authors
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A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.
— Groucho Marx
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Oh, my Lord! How true it is that whoever works for you is paid in troubles! And what a precious price to those who love…
— Teresa of Avila
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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or…
— Freya Stark
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Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
— Paul Klee
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I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's…
— William J. Clinton
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She works hard for the money so you better treat her right.
— Donna Summer
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
— Mark Twain
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
— Samuel Johnson
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A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. 'Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?'…
— Niels Bohr
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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
— Tom Holt
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I believe that every man can multiply his own ability by almost constant wordless realization of his unity with his Source. I have, myself, made…
— Walter Russell
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Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a…
— Walter Russell
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure…
— Frederic Bastiat
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun:…
— Frederic Bastiat
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
— Sidney Hook
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Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
— Ludwig von Mises
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For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
— Laozi
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I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is within, so long…
— Walter Russell
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Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the…
— T. Harv Eker
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Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with…
— Arthur Eddington
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
— John Arbuthnot
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study…
— John B. S. Haldane
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In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.…
— Louis Agassiz
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