Quotes for July 1950 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 124 reads

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  3.3 · 7 votes · 53 reads

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 111 reads

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• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 85 reads

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• Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 6 votes · 114 reads

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• But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 34 reads

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• Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 142 reads

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• Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 87 reads

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• He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 112 reads

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• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 126 reads

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• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tunes without the words, and never stops at all.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 88 reads

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• I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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• I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 34 votes · 30 reads

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 11 votes · 129 reads

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• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 78 reads

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• If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the Writerto observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 163 reads

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• If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 104 reads

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• If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 69 reads

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• In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.4 · 61 votes · 104 reads

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• Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 62 reads

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• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 87 reads

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• Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 60 votes · 146 reads

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• Let us my friends snatch our opportunity form the passing day.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 14 votes · 118 reads

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• Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 41 reads

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 43 reads

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• Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

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  Frank Zappa

  MusicianAmerican1940 · 20th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 149 reads

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• Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  5.0 · 37 votes · 74 reads

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• Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 0 reads

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• Taste cannot be controlled by law.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.6 · 32 votes · 74 reads

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• That fear may reach all, punish but few.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 57 votes · 76 reads

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• That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.6 · 39 votes · 55 reads

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• The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 144 reads

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• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 153 reads

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• The endearing elegance of female friendship.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 23 votes · 163 reads

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• The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 91 reads

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• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 2 reads

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• The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 7 votes · 185 reads

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• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 69 reads

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• The soul never thinks without a picture.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 5 votes · 81 reads

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• The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 83 reads

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• The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 159 reads

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.5 · 53 votes · 23 reads

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• There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 126 reads

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• There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 122 reads

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• Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.

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  Eliza Cook

  AuthorEnglish1818 · 19th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 123 reads

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• Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 41 votes · 77 reads

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• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 96 reads

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• When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 200 reads

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• Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 17 reads

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