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| Slow and steady wins the race. | Aesop | 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist |
| Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunnelling to the top. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. | Henry C. Rogers | |
| We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you -- he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. | Israel Zangwill | 1864-1926, British Writer |
| It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. | Margot Asquith | 1864-1945, British Socialite |
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| Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| Plodding wins the race. | Aesop | 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist |
| To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. | Horace | BC 65-8, Italian Poet |
| Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. | Walter Elliott | |
| The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. | Adam Smith | 1723-1790, Scottish Economist |
| I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. | Charles Maurice De Talleyrand | 1754-1838, French Statesman |
| There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. | Honore De Balzac | 1799-1850, French Novelist |
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| The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. | Lily Tomlin | 1939-, American Comedienne |
| Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. | Napoleon Bonaparte | 1769-1821, French General, Emperor |
| I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. | Paul Mccartney | 1942-, British Pop Star, Composer, Songwriter, Member of ''Beatles'' |
| No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind. | Phillips Brooks | 1835-1893, American Minister, Poet |
| An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag. | Proverb | |
| Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. | Ronald Reagan | 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor |
| I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| The human race has improved everything, but the human race. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. | Albert Camus | 1913-1960, French Existential Writer |
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| We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands. | Albert J. Beveridge | American Senator |
| If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. | Alexander Smith | 1830-1867, Scottish Poet, Author |
| If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. | Alexander Smith | 1830-1867, Scottish Poet, Author |
| A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. | Alexandre Dumas | 1802-1870, French Novelist, Dramatist |
| Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. | Alphonse De Lamartine | 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian |
| Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. | Ayn Rand | 1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher |
| Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters! | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological -- resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone. | Baron Lane | |
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| The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. | Baron William Henry Beveridge | 1879-1963, Indian Economist |
| To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us. | Baroness Orczy | 1865-1947, Hungarian-born British Novelist, Playwright |
| Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people? | Beah Richards | |
| Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space. | Bernard Cooper | |
| Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows. | Bernard Devoto | 1897-1955, American Writer, Critic, Historian |
| Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happens to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Innocence is like polished armour; it adorns and defends. | Bishop Robert South | 1634-1716, British Clergyman |
| No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. | Booker T. Washington | 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator |
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