- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who Quotes
Quotes on who matters and why.
These quotes highlight who shaped someone or who stands out in a field - teenage musical influences, or the rarity of actors who combine action skills with classical theater training. Related reading includes He Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
- Blunder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
- Rejection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
- Enchanting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drug reformers get seduced by politicians who co-opt our language but who make no meaningful change. And when we don't hold politicians accountable, we contribute to harm.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020