Quotes for December 1547 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 15: the anniversary does not move.

• A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 19 reads

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• Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 76 reads

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• Confidence is the bond of friendship.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 21 votes · 147 reads

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• Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 9 reads

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• Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 61 reads

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• Eureka! - I have found it!

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  Archimedes

  MathematicianGreek-287 · 3rd century BC

  3.3 · 20 votes · 193 reads

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• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.7 · 48 votes · 88 reads

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• Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 140 reads

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• Every why has a wherefore.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 35 votes · 189 reads

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 177 reads

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• For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 13 reads

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• For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 159 reads

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• Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 62 reads

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• He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 24 votes · 153 reads

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• Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  4.3 · 17 votes · 25 reads

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• I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 171 reads

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• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.9 · 34 votes · 65 reads

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• In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 57 reads

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• It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 27 reads

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• It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 27 votes · 12 reads

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• It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the co

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 166 reads

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• Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 115 reads

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• Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 196 reads

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• Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 25 votes · 163 reads

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• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the Writerthinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 58 reads

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• Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 113 reads

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• Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 185 reads

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• Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 15 votes · 110 reads

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• The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 134 reads

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• The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 18 votes · 191 reads

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• The goal of socialism is communism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 89 reads

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• The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 81 reads

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• The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.1 · 11 votes · 44 reads

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• The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 34 reads

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• The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

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  Persian proverb

  Persian

  3.7 · 5 votes · 193 reads

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• There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 162 reads

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• There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 48 votes · 67 reads

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• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 137 reads

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 80 reads

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• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 95 reads

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• We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 22 reads

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• We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 38 reads

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• Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 27 reads

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• When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 79 reads

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• You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 47 votes · 76 reads

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