General Sayings

206 sayings found from the Modern era from 206 authors

And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.

— Joseph Smith 1835-1842 (translation period)
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I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

— James Clerk Maxwell January 5, 1865
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No one nor anything can silence me.

— Dmitri Mendeleev Undetermined, but reflects his personality throughout his career.
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We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

— Sun Yat-sen Early 20th century
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The orders of the generalissimo must be obeyed and Those who violate them are enemies of the people.

— Chiang Kai-shek 1945
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It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.

— Emperor Hirohito Post-WWII
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The multi-party system is divisive and a newly independent state needs the energy and enthusiasm of all the people to move forward.

— Kwame Nkrumah 1960s
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I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

— Geronimo 1909
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

— Soren Kierkegaard Unknown
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Although women can have even more potential and more talent than man, they always lack in judgment.

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
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Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1961
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The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong).

— Edgar Allan Poe c. 1840s
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Sex is the root of it all—the animal want, the eager physical hunger, Sex will not be put aside; it is a great ordination of the universe.

— Walt Whitman Undated, c. 1850s-1890s
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They shut me up in Prose — As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet — Because they liked me 'still' —

— Emily Dickinson c. 1862
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost c. 1930s-1950s
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

— William Butler Yeats 1931
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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there.

— Andy Warhol 1975 (The Philosophy of Andy Warhol)
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I now own that station. That is Black power.

— James Brown 1968
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If a woman can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man.

— Walt Disney 1941
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It's awful to show one's knees when one doesn't have pretty knees.

— Coco Chanel Late 1960s
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