Quotes for December 2644 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 26: the anniversary does not move.

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 46 reads

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• A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 44 reads

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• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

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  Diane Ackerman

  WriterAmerican1948 · 20th century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 192 reads

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• Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 179 reads

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• As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.3 · 47 votes · 80 reads

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• Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 46 votes · 16 reads

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• Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight - unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors - I shall help give him the key.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 12 votes · 142 reads

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• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.3 · 17 votes · 181 reads

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• Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 41 reads

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• Happiness is not a reward: it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment: it is a result.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 24 reads

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• Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 55 votes · 60 reads

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• He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 19 reads

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• He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 137 reads

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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 159 reads

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• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 58 reads

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• I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.

  

  Mario Draghi

  EconomistItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 156 reads

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• I will return and I will be a million.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 16 reads

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• I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 16 reads

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• If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 88 reads

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• In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 200 reads

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• In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 118 reads

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• It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.8 · 58 votes · 96 reads

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• It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 26 reads

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• It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites -opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity -where energies flow smoothly in one direction -there will be much doing but no music.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 6 reads

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• It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 5 reads

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• Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

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  Konrad Adenauer

  PoliticianGerman1876 · 19th century

  3.2 · 38 votes · 176 reads

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• Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 126 reads

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• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 112 reads

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• No one can pray well, but those who live well.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 45 votes · 127 reads

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 121 reads

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• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 24 votes · 166 reads

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• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own fo

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 183 reads

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• The doctor knows what his trained eyes see - and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 61 votes · 144 reads

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• The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 56 votes · 144 reads

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• The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 145 reads

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• The heart that truly loves never forgets.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 38 votes · 183 reads

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• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -''Let there be truth between us two forevermore.''

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 188 reads

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• The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 155 reads

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• The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

  

  John Williams

  MusicianAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 175 reads

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• The want of money is the root of all evil.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 198 reads

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• Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 7 votes · 137 reads

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• With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.7 · 52 votes · 25 reads

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