Quotes for June 2151 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 21: the anniversary does not move.

• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 30 reads

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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 142 reads

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• Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.5 · 59 votes · 34 reads

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• Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 72 reads

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• Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 153 reads

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• Fools are without number.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  4.0 · 55 votes · 166 reads

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• For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predic

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 128 reads

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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 50 votes · 149 reads

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• Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 140 reads

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• He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 73 reads

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• Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 85 reads

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• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 59 votes · 88 reads

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• I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 156 reads

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 66 reads

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• I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 53 reads

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• I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 147 reads

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• If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 104 reads

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• In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 117 reads

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• It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 78 reads

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• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 52 votes · 93 reads

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 73 reads

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• Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.3 · 43 votes · 60 reads

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• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 11 reads

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• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 120 reads

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• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.6 · 6 votes · 177 reads

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 163 reads

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• Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 171 reads

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• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 23 reads

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• The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.9 · 49 votes · 36 reads

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• The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 18 votes · 39 reads

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• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 116 reads

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• The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 119 reads

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, ''That is all there was!'' But twist the

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 187 reads

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• The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 133 reads

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• The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 50 reads

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• There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 18 votes · 193 reads

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• There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure whic

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 174 reads

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• Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 168 reads

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• To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 95 reads

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• To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 44 reads

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• We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 43 reads

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• We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 20 votes · 42 reads

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• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 176 reads

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• When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 3 reads

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• When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 18 votes · 186 reads

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• When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.9 · 39 votes · 49 reads

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 167 reads

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• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 63 votes · 130 reads

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• You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 186 reads

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• Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 43 reads

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