Quotes are the key to the knowledge and wisdom of many great people. Find your own beacon on the road to success among our collection of inspirational quotes.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston
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The integrity of the game is everything.
Peter Ueberroth
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Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.
Joanne Rowling
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Kurt Vonnegut
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There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.
Ralph Stanley
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Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
Mark Skousen
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money’ but they changed it to alimony.
Robin Williams
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To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
Melvil Dewey
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
R. Kelly
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Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
Abraham Lincoln
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The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal
Emily Dickinson
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Globalisation for a startup is exciting; you have to learn so fast about the different cultures of the world.
Adam Neumann
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
Walter Gropius
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I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.
Johnny Mathis
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It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
Kimora Lee Simmons
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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.
Walt Whitman
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A country without borders is not a country.
Carlos Beruff
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Lisa See
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In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.
Ali Krieger
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
Andy Warhol
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Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
Fritz Kreisler
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
Edmund White
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
Garry Trudeau
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
W. Bruce Cameron