Quotes for September 2048 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 158 reads

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• Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 192 reads

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• Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 173 reads

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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 52 reads

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• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 48 reads

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 43 votes · 91 reads

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• Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.0 · 26 votes · 99 reads

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• Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our exports there, but more importantly, a significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits in fact, half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 69 reads

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• Few great men could pass personal.

  

  Paul Géraldy

  PoetFrench1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 196 reads

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• He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 143 reads

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• I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.4 · 19 votes · 113 reads

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• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 12 reads

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• I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.4 · 14 votes · 129 reads

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• I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 182 reads

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 56 reads

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• It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

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  Lyman Abbott

  PoliticianAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 103 reads

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• It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 123 reads

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• Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 45 votes · 43 reads

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• Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 31 reads

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• Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 139 reads

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• Many a woman drives a man to drink… water.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 12 votes · 196 reads

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• My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 112 reads

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• No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 7 reads

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• Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 23 reads

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• Our country is where ever we are well off.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 14 reads

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• People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 55 votes · 82 reads

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• Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 165 reads

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• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 30 votes · 26 reads

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• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 44 votes · 17 reads

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 153 reads

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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 10 votes · 106 reads

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• That government is best which governs least.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 7 reads

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• The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 68 reads

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• The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie -it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

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  Frank Zappa

  MusicianAmerican1940 · 20th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 148 reads

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• The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 7 reads

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• The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 33 votes · 22 reads

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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 1 reads

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• There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 100 reads

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• There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  3.2 · 28 votes · 50 reads

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• There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 30 votes · 6 reads

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• There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 55 reads

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels,

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 45 votes · 139 reads

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• There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man s!

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 60 votes · 66 reads

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• Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 72 reads

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• Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 29 reads

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• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.5 · 10 votes · 86 reads

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• Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 61 reads

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