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88 sayings found from the Modern era from 88 authors

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. ... When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, lik…

— Charlie Chaplin 1964
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Do not let your special talents in chemistry, your love for chemistry, keep you from developing your talents in other fields. Do not let yourself be a narrow specialist.

— Linus Pauling 1940s-1950s
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

— Mahatma Gandhi 1925
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I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me.

— Garibaldi 1849
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an indust…

— Henry David Thoreau 1863
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The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would in fact be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would be a system of slavery where, thanks to consumption and entertainment, th…

— Aldous Huxley 1962
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everythin…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald Undated
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1954
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