Walter Bagehot Quotes
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
Quotes to Explore
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
Gary Carr
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
Ziyi Zhang
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Beck
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
Gary Johnson
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.
Achille Mbembe
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Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.
Martin Luther
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot