Finest Quotes - Page 10

• If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

  Mona Sahlin

  Thinking, Expression, Pay

  Mona Sahlin in Swedish television, September 8, 1994.

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• Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

  Robin Sharma

  Sacrifice, Things In Life, Focus

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, Jaico Publishing House

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• I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my customers, so they may enjoy coffee at its peak of flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious and responsibly sourced beans.

  James Freeman

  Coffee, Use, Flavor

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• Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

  Warren Spector

  Games, Done, Half

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• [Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

  Albert Einstein

  Night, Light, People

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• What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Beautiful, Longing, Virtue

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• When I hear the name Michael Jackson, I think of brilliance, of dazzling stars, lasers and deep emotions. I think he is one of the world's biggest and greatest stars, and it just so happens that he is one of the most gifted music makers the world has ever known. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock, and Soul. I love you Michael.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Kings, Stars, Love You

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• ... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Way, Photographer, Journalist

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• Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Lying, Light, Hands

  Christina Hoff Sommers (1995). “Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

  Martin Luther

  Hair, Mourning, Ornaments

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.307

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• You believe
  In God, for your part?--that He who makes
  Can make good things from ill things, best from worst,
  As men plant tulips upon dunghills when
  They wish them finest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Men, Wish

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.343

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• Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Philosophy, Men, Expression

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.18, AK Press

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• The finest wits have their sediment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.414

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• I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

  Taron Egerton

  Sandwiches, Tesco, I Can

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• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih, is an eloquent and restrained portrait of one man's exile. It is a rare narrative in that it charts a life divided between England and Sudan. Without a doubt it is one of the finest Arabic novels of the 20th century, and Denys Johnson-Davies' translationdoes the original justice.

  Hisham Matar

  Men, Justice, Doubt

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• Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Character, Mean

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.115, Discovery House

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• My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

  George Steiner

  Father, Teaching, Poetry And Music

  "George and his dragons" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

  Evel Knievel

  Men, Gold, Pay

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• All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

  Irving Stone

  Artist, Crackpots, Features

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• In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

  Donald Bren

  Giving, Opinion, Individual

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• The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, Giving, Soul

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• One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself.

  Denis Diderot

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Artist, Air

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• We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Moving, Past

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• Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

  Sean Wilentz

  Light, Giving, Historical

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