Quotes for February 2651 quotes · 47 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 26: the anniversary does not move.

• A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.4 · 20 votes · 163 reads

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• A short absence is the safest.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 27 votes · 74 reads

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• As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 56 reads

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• At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.0 · 33 votes · 134 reads

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• Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 77 reads

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• Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 133 reads

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• Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 143 reads

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• Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 163 reads

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• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 7 votes · 56 reads

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• From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 123 reads

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• God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 82 reads

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• Good things, when short, are twice as good.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 147 reads

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• I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 69 reads

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 199 reads

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• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 47 votes · 173 reads

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• I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 44 reads

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• I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 106 reads

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• Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

  MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 170 reads

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• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 106 reads

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• In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 150 reads

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• In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 51 reads

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• In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 173 reads

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• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 13 reads

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• It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 155 reads

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• It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 38 votes · 24 reads

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• Live your life and forget your age.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 55 reads

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• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 120 reads

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• No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 10 votes · 153 reads

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• Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 48 votes · 25 reads

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• One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes w

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.8 · 25 votes · 166 reads

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• Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 177 reads

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• People die of fright and live of confidence.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 25 reads

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• So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 2 reads

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• That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 64 reads

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• The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 18 reads

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• The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 198 reads

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• The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 129 reads

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• The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 4 reads

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• The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 122 reads

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 96 reads

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• The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 140 reads

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• The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 35 reads

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• There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 147 reads

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• There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 137 reads

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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.3 · 7 votes · 45 reads

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• To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 184 reads

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• Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 181 reads

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• Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 62 reads

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• Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 68 reads

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