Quotes for January 647 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 6: the anniversary does not move.

• A man is known by the company he organizes.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 88 reads

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• A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 140 reads

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• A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 115 reads

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 28 reads

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 133 reads

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• Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 58 votes · 98 reads

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• An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 82 reads

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• Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 35 reads

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• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 6 reads

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• Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 103 reads

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• For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

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  Frederick William Faber

  TheologianBritish1814 · 19th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 58 reads

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• Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 77 reads

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• He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.9 · 48 votes · 15 reads

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• I can't really comment on rumors.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 116 reads

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• I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 168 reads

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• I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 92 reads

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• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 171 reads

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• It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 179 reads

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• It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 198 reads

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• It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 16 votes · 113 reads

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• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 123 reads

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• Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 24 reads

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• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 27 reads

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• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 49 reads

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• Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.4 · 36 votes · 147 reads

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• Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 120 reads

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• Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 131 reads

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• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 108 reads

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• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 38 votes · 15 reads

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• Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 198 reads

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• Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 63 reads

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• The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 53 votes · 24 reads

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• The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 87 reads

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 173 reads

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• The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 121 reads

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• The road to excellence is always under construction

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 23 votes · 64 reads

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• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 194 reads

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• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 149 reads

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• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 2 reads

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• To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 169 reads

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• To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 6 reads

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• Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 152 reads

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• Too much humility is pride.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.5 · 59 votes · 137 reads

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• True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 145 reads

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• We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 92 reads

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• You can't regulate every lab in the world.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 84 reads

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