Quotes for June 2849 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 28: the anniversary does not move.

• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 143 reads

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• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.9 · 10 votes · 12 reads

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• A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 128 reads

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• A witty saying proves nothing.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.4 · 45 votes · 140 reads

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• Absence and a friendly neighbour washes away love.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.0 · 37 votes · 29 reads

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• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 157 reads

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• Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 37 votes · 21 reads

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• Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.3 · 5 votes · 122 reads

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 97 reads

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• Gratitude is the doorman's payment.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 30 votes · 92 reads

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• I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 11 reads

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• I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

  

  Ray Bradbury

  WriterAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 112 reads

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• I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 88 reads

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• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 136 reads

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• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

  

  Franz Kafka

  WriterCzeck1883 · 19th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 98 reads

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• Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 98 reads

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 11 reads

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• Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 167 reads

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• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 112 reads

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• My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, whe

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.5 · 14 votes · 18 reads

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• Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  5.0 · 56 votes · 128 reads

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• Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 13 votes · 132 reads

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• Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 54 reads

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• Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 22 votes · 131 reads

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• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.9 · 55 votes · 29 reads

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• Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 175 reads

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• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 46 votes · 10 reads

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 174 reads

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• Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 48 votes · 145 reads

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 20 votes · 152 reads

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• Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going t

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 53 reads

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• The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 102 reads

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• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 29 reads

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• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 161 reads

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• The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 29 reads

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• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 157 reads

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• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.9 · 20 votes · 32 reads

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 100 reads

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• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  4.1 · 59 votes · 169 reads

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• There is no indispensable man.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 65 reads

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• There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 119 reads

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• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 56 reads

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• To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 198 reads

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 29 reads

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• Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 45 reads

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• Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 78 reads

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• When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 83 reads

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• When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 16 reads

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