General Sayings

511 sayings found from 511 authors

Nationalism is a great menace. It is the greatest evil that the world is faced with today.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1917
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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

— Chinua Achebe 1983
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The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.

— Anton Chekhov 1887
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It is a great folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.

— Moliere 1666
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There are only two families in the world: the Haves and the Have-Nots.

— Cervantes 1615
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He who cannot give an account of three thousand years is lost in the darkness of inexperience.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1819
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The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

— Rachel Carson 1963
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I hate the world and almost everything in it.

— Sylvia Plath 1963
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

— Jack Kerouac 1956
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Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!

— Allen Ginsberg 1955
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After a certain point, there is no return. This point has to be reached.

— William S. Burroughs 1959
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I am more than ever now the bride of science.

— Ada Lovelace 1843
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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that.

— Grace Hopper 1983
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

— John von Neumann 1950s
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The Nile floods because of heavy rains in the south.

— Eratosthenes 240 BCE
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All parts of the body are formed in the semen.

— Galen 180 CE
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Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget that you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.

— Hunter S. Thompson N/A
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True love can be defined as the love of a good woman and a good cigar.

— Kurt Vonnegut 1977
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The human intellect is incapable of knowing the divine essence.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 1020
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What is easiest and most useful in arithmetic, such as men frequently require in cases of inheritance, legacies, partition, lawsuits, and trade.

— Al-Khwarizmi 830
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