Well Known Quotes - Page 9

• It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

  Winston Churchill

  Temples, Vices, Naked

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Doe, Wells

  'Thyestes' sc. 2, chorus (translation by Miller)

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• Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

  Hans Selye

  Science, Data, Intellectual

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• It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

  Norman Cousins

  Depression, Hate, Frustration

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• For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Apes, Innocence

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• Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe - safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.

  Lester Grinspoon

  Pain, Loss, Marijuana

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• Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Lying, Gold, Wells

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• I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

  Michael Fassbender

  Independent, Thinking, Names

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• Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Idols, Symbiosis, Kind

  "The Image or What Happened to the American Dream".

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• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  A. E. Waite

  Sight, Acting, Firsts

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

  Brian Williams

  Taken, Athlete, Israel

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• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Tony Visconti

  Friends, Dad, Quick Wit

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• The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

  Nick Johnson

  Agency, Hygiene, Literature

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• As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.

  Claude Bernard

  Learning, Knowledge, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Cat, Fog, Feet

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• History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

  Paul Valery

  Dream, Memories, People

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• Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

  David Milne

  Thinking, Names, Fundamentals

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• Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Success, People, Becoming

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• Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite theology with unusual clarity and provides important background for such well-known works as his autobiographical Deliverance from Error and his attack on Avicenna in The Incoherence of the Philosophers. This first English-language translation, with notes that bring out the argumentation and background of the work, is thus very much to be welcomed.

  Peter Adamson

  Philosophical, Errors, Islam

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• A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

  Robert Cialdini

  Successful, People, Principles

  Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

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• Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

  Terry Gilliam

  Wells, Animator, Known

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. November 15, 2000.

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• Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Numbers, Environmental, Restoration

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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• A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

  Anuj

  Firsts, Opinion, Form

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• Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big.

  Grace Slick

  Country, Mean, People

  "What Grace Slick is doing now". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about "open source" thinking that I work under that banner.

  Richard Stallman

  Thinking, People, Alternatives

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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