Notable Quotes - Page 11

• There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

  Evan Esar

  Brother, Men, Differences

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Strong, New York, Roots

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• Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Parent, Pot

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• Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Business, Character, Loss

  Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”

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• Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book.

  Myla Goldberg

  Book, Brave, Portraits

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• In a notable family called Stein
  There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein.
  Gert's writing was hazy,
  Ep's statues were crazy,
  And nobody understood Ein.

  Bennett Cerf

  Crazy, Writing, Poetry

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• The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Spiritual, Feelings, Essentials

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• In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

  Barton Gellman

  Uganda, Problem, Aids

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• Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.

  B. C. Forbes

  Mean, Men, Office Work

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• I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was making notable headway, although his path bristled with difficulties. Business places no premiums on shrinking violets. Employers prefer men who have self-assurance, forcefulness, go-aheadness, men who know their jobs and know that they know it.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jobs, Pride, Successful

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• The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sex, Egotism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.386

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• Of course, with the last ads shipped and the last polls conducted, there'€™s not much to do but try to read the tea leaves. And from what Democrats are seeing, it doesn't look good. At all.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Tea Leaves, Trying, Looks

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• Think about that: 81 percent of Americans believe that Obama lies to them at least 'now and then' on 'important matters.'

  Marc Thiessen

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and debt. The only way to do this is by offering specific, persuasive ideas.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Winning, Offering

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• I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

  Joni Ernst

  Cutting, Yale, Iowa

  "GOP Senate candidate vows to cut pork, cites experience 'castrating hogs'". www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2014.

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• We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Yale, Important, Able

  "Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin to separate" by Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Every time I get an opponent - I mean, every time I get a chance, I’m home.

  Pat Roberts

  Home, Mean, Yale

  "The eight biggest campaign gaffes". thehill.com. September 5, 2014.

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• There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

  Daryl Gates

  People, Facts, Situation

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• Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Art, Records

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.67, 谷月社

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• Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

  Isak Dinesen

  Errors, Humanity, Balance

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• The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

  Adrienne Rich

  Important, Culture, Limits

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• I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Actors, Way, Zombieland

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• Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

  Otto Weininger

  Fire, Oxygen, Flames

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• DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baptism, World, Firsts

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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• The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.

  Mel White

  Book, Taken, Idols

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