Thirty Quotes - Page 6

• Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Years, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1113, Manonmani Publishers

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• I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.

  Anthony Minghella

  Dream, Latin, Dirty

  "Fictional character: The Storyteller". TV Series "The Storyteller" ("A Story Short", 1988), www.imdb.com. (1987 - ).

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• Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

  Sugata Mitra

  Years, Information, Needs

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

  Laozi

  Life, Cutting, Doors

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• She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sides, Chickens, Ifs

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Poems, Polite convesation, etc”, p.296

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• If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

  Epictetus

  Sacrifice, Two, Giving

  Epictetus (2017). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.

  Edouard Seguin

  Men, Two, Order

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• As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Independent, Eight

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

  Marcia Angell

  Eight, Drug, Negative

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• Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

  Matt Cutts

  Motivation, Inspiration, Add

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• Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Motivation, Regret, Inspiration

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• My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

  Patrick Modiano

  Years, Differences, Wife

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• Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

  Daniel Suarez

  World, Hell, Proof

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• Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

  Julie Powell

  Hate, Naps, Years

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• I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black
  teenager.

  Sarah

  Funny, Teenager, Kids

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• The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year.
  There´s no sign of growth.
  Not even a hint.
  The same thing happens - or doesn´t happen - the second year.
  And then the third year.
  The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year,
  but nothing shows. No growth. No anything.
  For eight years it can continue. Eight years!
  Then - after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it - the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months!

  Zig Ziglar

  Eight, Years, Feet

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• There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Waiting, Hamburgers, Lines

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Lying, Long, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.52

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• I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

  Dana Carvey

  Years, Age, Levels

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• Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

  John C. Malone

  Money, Dollars, Three

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• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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• Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

  Richard Branson

  Future, Space, People

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Identity, Stories

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

  Steven Johnson

  Past, Average, Years

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Earth

  "Vincent Van Gogh".

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