Quotes for August 549 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 5: the anniversary does not move.

• A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 150 reads

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• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 52 reads

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• A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 89 reads

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• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 35 reads

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• Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 10 reads

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• Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 119 reads

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• Be both the gardener and the rose.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 31 votes · 116 reads

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• But I always feel that whatever I do, I could do better. I suppose it is perfectionism.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.9 · 23 votes · 15 reads

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• Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 38 votes · 188 reads

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• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibri

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 77 reads

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• Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 196 reads

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• Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 58 votes · 110 reads

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• Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 93 reads

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• However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 64 votes · 56 reads

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• I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 92 reads

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• I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 94 reads

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• I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Ge

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 167 reads

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• I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 60 reads

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• I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.7 · 52 votes · 40 reads

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• I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.3 · 49 votes · 111 reads

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• I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 198 reads

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• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 13 reads

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• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 82 reads

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• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 59 reads

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• In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 110 reads

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 86 reads

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 108 reads

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• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 0 reads

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• Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 187 reads

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  5.0 · 22 votes · 24 reads

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• My reputation grew with every failure.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 55 reads

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• Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 188 reads

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• Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 53 votes · 62 reads

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• On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.4 · 53 votes · 70 reads

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• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.0 · 10 votes · 59 reads

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• Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 16 votes · 119 reads

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• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 200 reads

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 200 reads

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• The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 123 reads

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• This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 122 reads

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• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our heart

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 16 votes · 137 reads

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• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 132 reads

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• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 36 reads

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• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 21 reads

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• When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 182 reads

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• When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 114 reads

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• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 89 reads

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• You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 7 votes · 197 reads

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