Quotes for June 1750 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 17: the anniversary does not move.

• A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there, that of the pulse, the hear

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.0 · 17 votes · 75 reads

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• A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 156 reads

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• A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  3.1 · 64 votes · 93 reads

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• All concord's born of contraries.

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  Ben Jonson

  PoetEnglish1573 · 16th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 149 reads

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• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 28 votes · 77 reads

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• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 47 reads

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• As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.9 · 64 votes · 28 reads

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• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 32 votes · 114 reads

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• Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 36 votes · 103 reads

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• Don't spur a willing horse.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.9 · 27 votes · 60 reads

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• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 155 reads

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• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 38 reads

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• Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 137 reads

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• Good counselors lack no clients.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 60 votes · 154 reads

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• I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.9 · 13 votes · 28 reads

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• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 43 reads

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• In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 198 reads

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• In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 53 votes · 132 reads

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• It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 107 reads

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• Its quite true there's a fool born every minute. It's also quite true they don't die that fast.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 34 votes · 135 reads

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• Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 21 reads

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• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 41 votes · 165 reads

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• On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We wil

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 33 reads

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• Our strength grows out of our weakness.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 74 reads

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• Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

  

  Antoine Rivarol

  WriterFrench1753 · 18th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 182 reads

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• Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 186 reads

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• Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 95 reads

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• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 79 reads

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• The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 29 votes · 133 reads

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• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 125 reads

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• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.9 · 8 votes · 114 reads

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• The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 107 reads

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 101 reads

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• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 115 reads

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 130 reads

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• The very act of believing creates strength of its own.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 53 votes · 85 reads

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• There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not tr

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 184 reads

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• Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 123 reads

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• To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 124 reads

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• Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 6 votes · 115 reads

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• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 173 reads

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• We seldom report of having eaten too little.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 48 reads

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• We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 118 reads

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everyt

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 166 reads

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• What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 46 reads

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• When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 16 reads

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• When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 132 reads

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• When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 50 reads

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• Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 6 reads

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