Quotes for November 2251 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 22: the anniversary does not move.

• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 39 reads

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• Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 61 votes · 21 reads

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• Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 188 reads

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• Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

  

  John Stuart Mill

  PhilosopherBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 198 reads

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• Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 155 reads

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• Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 38 reads

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• Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 188 reads

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• Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 178 reads

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• I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 59 reads

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• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 19 reads

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• I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 155 reads

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• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 119 reads

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• If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 118 reads

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• If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 145 reads

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• If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

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  Émile Zola

  NovelistFrench1840 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 144 reads

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• It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 29 reads

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• Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 158 reads

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• Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, -for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 60 reads

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• Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 153 reads

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• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 155 reads

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• My father told me, never have partners.

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  Howard Hughes

  BusinessmanAmerican1905 · 20th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 188 reads

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• Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 172 reads

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 55 reads

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• Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 21 reads

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• So many signatures for such a small heart.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 3 reads

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• Some of your grief you have cured, and lived to survive; but what torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 179 reads

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• Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shi

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 44 votes · 66 reads

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• Study men, not historians.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 60 reads

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• Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 109 reads

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• The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 185 reads

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• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.4 · 29 votes · 24 reads

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• The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 62 reads

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• The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 52 reads

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• The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 102 reads

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 175 reads

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 34 votes · 24 reads

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• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 180 reads

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• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult w

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 132 reads

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• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 58 reads

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• Those movies sure got me into a rut.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 36 reads

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• Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 180 reads

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• Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 23 reads

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• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 149 reads

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• Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.4 · 20 votes · 114 reads

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• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 64 reads

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• What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 44 votes · 95 reads

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• When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 76 reads

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enfor

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 61 reads

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• You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.2 · 28 votes · 34 reads

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