Quotes for November 3049 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 30: the anniversary does not move.

• A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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  Clifton Fadiman

  WriterAmerican1904 · 20th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 49 reads

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• Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 193 reads

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• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.4 · 20 votes · 103 reads

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• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 128 reads

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• Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 66 reads

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• Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 8 votes · 123 reads

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 173 reads

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• Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 57 reads

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• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 104 reads

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• Good and bad men are less than they seem.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 17 reads

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• I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 48 reads

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• I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 83 reads

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• I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 193 reads

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• I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  3.2 · 39 votes · 147 reads

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• I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 22 reads

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• I'm going to try to unite all Americans.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 117 reads

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• If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 44 reads

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• It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 17 votes · 138 reads

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• Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 7 votes · 173 reads

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  4.5 · 45 votes · 193 reads

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• Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 84 reads

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• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 116 reads

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• Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 11 reads

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• Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.7 · 41 votes · 123 reads

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• Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 171 reads

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• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 80 reads

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• People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 2 reads

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• Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 200 reads

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• Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 91 reads

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• Talking is the disease of age.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 34 reads

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• The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 63 reads

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• The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 54 votes · 123 reads

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• The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 80 reads

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• The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 27 reads

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• The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.1 · 38 votes · 151 reads

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• The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 7 reads

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• The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.9 · 61 votes · 64 reads

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• The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 111 reads

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• The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

  

  Herbert Spencer

  PhilosopherEnglish1820 · 19th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 44 reads

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• There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.3 · 20 votes · 108 reads

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• There is a history in all men's lives.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 24 votes · 71 reads

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• There is no real wealth but the labor of man.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 188 reads

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• There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 59 votes · 191 reads

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• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.4 · 7 votes · 6 reads

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 76 reads

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 163 reads

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• Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 19 votes · 59 reads

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• Your library is your paradise.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 114 reads

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