Quotes for June 1950 quotes · 39 authors

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

• A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 47 votes · 63 reads

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• A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 48 reads

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• A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 104 reads

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• A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 144 reads

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• Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 110 reads

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• America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 45 votes · 81 reads

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• And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 54 reads

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• Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 190 reads

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• Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 31 votes · 103 reads

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• At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 52 reads

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• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 109 reads

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• Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 150 reads

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• Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 82 reads

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• Everyone has 20/20 hindsight

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 17 votes · 149 reads

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• Everyone is a self-made person, but only the successful admit it.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 56 votes · 144 reads

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• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 49 votes · 106 reads

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• Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 26 votes · 174 reads

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• Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.7 · 45 votes · 23 reads

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• God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 60 votes · 110 reads

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• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 134 reads

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• I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 4 reads

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• I didn't know it was impossible when I did it

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 53 votes · 92 reads

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• I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 74 reads

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• I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

  

  Lionel Jospin

  PoliticianFrench1937 · 20th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 108 reads

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• If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 191 reads

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• Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 31 reads

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• It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.6 · 14 votes · 139 reads

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• It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 182 reads

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• It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 98 reads

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 136 reads

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• Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 155 reads

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• Only Americans can hurt America.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 172 reads

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 175 reads

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• Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 93 reads

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• Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 122 reads

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• Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 145 reads

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• The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 191 reads

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• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precep

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 193 reads

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• The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 84 reads

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• The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 59 votes · 199 reads

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• The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 171 reads

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.4 · 17 votes · 14 reads

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• Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all th

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 59 votes · 142 reads

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• We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 106 reads

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• When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 83 reads

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• With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 87 reads

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• You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 194 reads

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