Quotes for November 2544 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 25: the anniversary does not move.

• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 65 reads

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• Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 142 reads

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• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 143 reads

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• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

  PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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• Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.1 · 54 votes · 186 reads

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• Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 149 reads

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• Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 126 reads

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• Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 36 reads

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• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 90 reads

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• Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 5 votes · 93 reads

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• Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 100 reads

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• Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.1 · 47 votes · 44 reads

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 115 reads

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• Don't complain about the snow on your neighbour's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 49 votes · 66 reads

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• Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 1 reads

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• Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 18 reads

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• For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 158 reads

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• He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.3 · 25 votes · 68 reads

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• He who does not research has nothing to teach.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.0 · 15 votes · 119 reads

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• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.5 · 54 votes · 20 reads

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• In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 127 reads

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• In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 20 reads

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• Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.2 · 55 votes · 38 reads

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• It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 101 reads

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

  Victor Hugo

  PoetFrench1802 · 19th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 36 reads

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• Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 16 reads

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• More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.9 · 43 votes · 153 reads

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• Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 79 reads

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 181 reads

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• The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 98 reads

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• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 84 reads

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• The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 84 reads

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• The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 161 reads

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• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 108 reads

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• There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 160 reads

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• There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do t

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 0 reads

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• Things don't have to change the world to be important.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 138 reads

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 23 reads

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• Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 43 reads

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• What can't be cured must be endured.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 142 reads

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• When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 28 reads

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