Famous Quotes

(50 votes)   The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke
English, Royalty Quotes

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(49 votes)   If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Calvin Coolidge
American, President Quotes

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(49 votes)   My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

Rita Rudner
American, Comedian Quotes

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(49 votes)   Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

Michael Korda
Author Nationalities, Musician Quotes

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(49 votes)   Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Max Weber
German, Economist Quotes

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(49 votes)   The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

James Harrington
English, Philosopher Quotes

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(49 votes)   The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

Luis Miguel
Mexican, Musician Quotes

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(49 votes)   Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Felix Klein
German, Mathematician Quotes

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(48 votes)   A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber
German, Celebrity Quotes

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(48 votes)   After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

Otto Schily
German, Public Servant Quotes

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(48 votes)   Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Joseph Stalin
Russian, Leader Quotes

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(48 votes)   I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.

Ryan Giggs
Welsh, Athlete Quotes

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(48 votes)   Life coaching has received a lot of press recently; it seems you can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading a quote from a life coach.

Elaine MacDonald
Canadian, Activist Quotes

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(48 votes)   Man proposes, and God disposes.

Ludovico Ariosto
Author Nationalities, Poet Quotes

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(48 votes)   Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

C. Northcote Parkinson
British, Historian Quotes

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