Quotes for February 2452 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 24: the anniversary does not move.

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 95 reads

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• A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 93 reads

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• Actually if a Writerneeds a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me m

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 56 reads

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• By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that eve

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 44 reads

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• He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.9 · 27 votes · 48 reads

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• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 98 reads

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• Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.3 · 58 votes · 82 reads

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• I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 105 reads

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 92 reads

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• I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 113 reads

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• I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's small

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 129 reads

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• I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 155 reads

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• I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 41 reads

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• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.7 · 45 votes · 11 reads

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• If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 13 votes · 190 reads

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• Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  5.0 · 59 votes · 84 reads

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• Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 133 reads

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 53 votes · 18 reads

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• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will c

  

  Franz Kafka

  WriterCzeck1883 · 19th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 184 reads

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• Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 95 reads

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• Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 58 votes · 52 reads

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• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 109 reads

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• My ''fear''... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

  

  Franz Kafka

  WriterCzeck1883 · 19th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 106 reads

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• Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 68 reads

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• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 5 reads

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• Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 197 reads

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 82 reads

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• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 101 reads

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• Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 136 reads

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• That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 102 reads

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• The best safety lies in fear.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 155 reads

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• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 194 reads

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• The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 148 reads

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• The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 44 reads

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• The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 146 reads

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• The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 62 reads

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it be

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 38 votes · 1 reads

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• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 175 reads

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• The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 60 reads

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• There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 184 reads

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• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 61 votes · 61 reads

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• There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 34 reads

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• To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 9 reads

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 129 reads

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• We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 120 reads

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• What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 43 reads

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• What is my life if I am no longer useful to others?

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 127 reads

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• What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 28 votes · 81 reads

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• When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 195 reads

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• Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 66 reads

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