Dozen Quotes - Page 9

• There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.

  Ivan Sutherland

  People, Six, Computer

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• The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Ignorance, Men, History

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• Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Foolish Man, Religion

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• It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Two, Worry

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• The only weapon I had was my dancing.
  With that I fought like a general without an army.
  If I could have saved all the energy I wasted on my struggle
  it would have sufficed me to cover a dozen ballets.

  Maya Plisetskaya

  Dance, Struggle, Army

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• While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

  Fred Perry

  Beautiful, Athlete, Drawing

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• You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

  Dale Long

  Baseball, Boys, Men

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• Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Heart, Biblical

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”

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• I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.

  Jean Driscoll

  Horse, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

  Larry Niven

  Technology, Space, Should Have

  Space.com Interview with S. James Blackman, February 10, 2000.

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• One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.

  Joe Haldeman

  Military, War, Men

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• Looking at life through the eyes of a Daddy long legs: Imagine walking on legs so long you could cover a mile in fifty strides! Imagine looking to either side through eyes set not in your head but in a... hump in your back! Imagine your knees, when you walked, working a dozen feet or more above your head.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Eye, Garden, Feet

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• A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

  Mark Twain

  New Year, Holiday, Littles

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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Holiday

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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• People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

  Robert Keith Leavitt

  People, Soul, Mind

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• Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

  Earl Blaik

  Inspirational, Sports, Guy

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• Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

  Sean Covey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Gratitude

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

  Louis L'Amour

  Girl, Morning, Children

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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• I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

  Drake

  Humble, Color, Feelings

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• Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Crazy

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• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

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• This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

  Steve Perry

  Cheating, Mistake, Mean

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• Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Crazy, Men

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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