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148 quotesThe real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Mediocrity
Eric Hoffer
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Theory
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Music
Elbert Hubbard
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INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Innovation
Watts Humprey
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Cynics and Cynicism
Fannie Hurst
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You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
Ideals and Idealism
Henrik Ibsen
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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.
Cities and City Life
Italian Proverb
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Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
Politicians and Politics
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Laziness
Samuel Johnson
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
Goals
David Starr Jordan
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To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
Intimacy
Marcel Jouhandeau
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The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Torture
Carl Jung
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No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Understanding
V. I. Klassen
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Nature
Paul Klee
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One returns to the place one came from.
Home
Jean De La Fontaine
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
God
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Secrets
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Communism and Socialism
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Prayer
Doris Lessing
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Writers and Writing
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Theology
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Cycles
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Difficulties
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Incredulity
James Russell Lowell
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Adversity
Maori Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun