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102 quotesIdleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Idleness
Cyril Connolly
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature
William Cowper
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The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
Politicians and Politics
Ely Culbertson
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I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.
Names
Pat Day
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The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Heroes and Heroism
Benjamin Disraeli
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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
Life and Living
Henry Drummond
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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Music
James Duffecy
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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Compassion
Meister Eckhart
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
Nicknames
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Necessity
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
Names
English Proverb
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Fame
Desiderius Erasmus
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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
Memory
Enrico Fermi
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Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.
Chance
Anatole France
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
History and Historians
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
Happiness
Harold S. Geneen
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Power
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Human Nature
Emma Goldman
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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Names
Thomas C. Haliburton
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Names
Edward F. Halifax
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Fame
William Hazlitt
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How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Fame
Homer
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun