Quotes for December 752 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 49 votes · 48 reads

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• A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

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  Doris Lessing

  WriterBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.3 · 53 votes · 123 reads

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• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 123 reads

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• Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 45 reads

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• Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 59 votes · 69 reads

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• Better not be at all than not be noble.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 166 reads

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• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 49 votes · 43 reads

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• Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 169 reads

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• Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 181 reads

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• Every wall is a door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 29 reads

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• For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 109 reads

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• Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.9 · 12 votes · 36 reads

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• Historian. A broad - gauge gossip.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 88 reads

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• I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 5 reads

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• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 182 reads

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• I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 56 votes · 75 reads

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  

  Auguste Rodin

  ScientistFrench1840 · 19th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 162 reads

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• I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 42 reads

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• If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.1 · 46 votes · 170 reads

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• It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 118 reads

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• Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 54 reads

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• My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.3 · 63 votes · 58 reads

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• No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 58 votes · 88 reads

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• Nothing is irreparable in politics.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 176 reads

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• One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 147 reads

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• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.9 · 48 votes · 151 reads

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• Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 72 reads

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 100 reads

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• Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 121 reads

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• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.9 · 13 votes · 131 reads

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• The cyclic universe theory predicts no gravitational waves from the early universe.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 52 reads

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• The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 50 votes · 74 reads

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 60 reads

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• The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 183 reads

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• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 36 votes · 106 reads

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• There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 104 reads

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• There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 96 reads

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• There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.6 · 36 votes · 122 reads

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• There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 36 reads

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, di

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 38 reads

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• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 188 reads

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• Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 86 reads

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• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, -till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 34 votes · 36 reads

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• To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 25 reads

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• We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 41 votes · 75 reads

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• We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.7 · 44 votes · 165 reads

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• Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 10 votes · 86 reads

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• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 164 reads

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• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 140 reads

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• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 39 reads

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• Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 95 reads

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