Fixed Quotes

• Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

  Ernest Renan

  Thinking, Opinion

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  Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Pie, Liberty

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

  Joe Baca

  Real, Character, People

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• He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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  Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Aquarius, Heaven

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Leadership, Don't Give Up

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• The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cute, Soul, Lost Friendship

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• The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Borders, Rivals

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• The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Patterns, Martial Arts, Truth Is

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.223, Tuttle Publishing

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• Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

  Anna Freud

  Papa, Unexplained, Psychoanalytic

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• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Book, School

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

  David Hackworth

  Sound, Feckless, Moral

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• Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Change, Hippie, Liberty

  "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.

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• The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Development, World, Stage

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• Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

  David Ricardo

  Two, May, Durability

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.21

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• Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

  Susan Sontag

  Forever, Details, Life Is

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• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  Barbra Streisand

  Names, History, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

  Barbra Streisand

  Trust, Mirrors, Noses

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• The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Eye, Eternity, Prophet

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• When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

  Henry Fielding

  Wedding, Men, Widows And Orphans

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.601

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• There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

  Bridget Riley

  Reality, Belief, Interpretation

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

  Juliet Mitchell

  Future, Worst

  Juliet Mitchell (1984). “Women: The Longest Revolution”, Pantheon

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• The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Rome, Years, Leader

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”

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• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  Josiah Strong

  Change, Europe, Earthquakes

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• We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

  Henry Bessemer

  Queens, Cities, Office

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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