William Standish Knowles Quotes
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
Dan Brown
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
Fortune Feimster
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham Lincoln
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My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.
Garcelle Beauvais
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Bruno Schulz
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I play a lot of those parts, and it's a chicken-and-egg thing. I don't know whether you get scary because you play those parts or did you get those parts because you were scary? But I do believe that there's a very close connection to what's scary and what's funny. So I think if you have the ability to do one, you might have the ability to do the other.
Christopher Walken
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To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles
