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218 quotesMy God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
Moderation
Robert Clive
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Fashion
Irvin S. Cobb
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Business
Sir Edward Coke
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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
Manners
Confucius
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
Admiration
Charles Horton Cooley
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The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
Inspiration
Comer Cotrell
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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Generations
Anthony Crosland
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Admiration
Denis Diderot
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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Greatness
Benjamin Disraeli
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Desperation
Benjamin Disraeli
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Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Opinions
Benjamin Disraeli
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Equality
William J. Durant
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Love
Lawrence Durrell
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Genius
Thomas A. Edison
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Politicians and Politics
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Repetition
George Eliot
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'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
Exaggeration
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
Focus
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We live by our imagination, our admiration s, and our sentiments.
Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
Sex
Nora Ephron
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Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
Concentration
Chris Evert
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Detail
Francois FeNelon
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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Charles James Fox
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Humankind
Anatole France
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration
Benjamin Franklin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun