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"The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night." Jean Baudrillard 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie 4.3871 average rating Rate this Quote
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice." Henry Ward Beecher 3.7059 average rating Rate this Quote
"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table." Max Beerbohm 2.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." Brendan Francis Behan 4.9655 average rating Rate this Quote
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it." Alexander Graham Bell 4.9459 average rating Rate this Quote
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." Alexander Graham Bell 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself." Bernard Iddings Bell 3.9286 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" Joachim du Bellay 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them." Warren G. Bennis 4.5217 average rating Rate this Quote
"What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination." Warren G. Bennis 4.9375 average rating Rate this Quote
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there." Irving 3.9167 average rating Rate this Quote
"All power in human hands is liable to be abused." Sarah Bernhardt 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough." Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure." Bible 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies." 1 Timothy 1:4 Bible: New Testament Rate this Quote
"There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy." Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 4.7333 average rating Rate this Quote
"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are." B. A. Billingsly 4.7813 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?" Jim 3.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
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