Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Archimedes

Archimedes

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The fame is a piece of nothing that the artist grabs on the fly without knowing why.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The fanaticisms we should fear the most are those that can be confused with tolerance.

Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal

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The most vulgar and least beautiful places on our body are the ones that provide pleasure.

Jean Lucien Arréat

Jean Lucien Arréat

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If I involve myself in life, I exaggerate its importance; and if I distance myself from it, I exaggerate its insignificance.

Jean Lucien Arréat

Jean Lucien Arréat

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Unable to change men, institutions are relentlessly changed.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery

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I do not write about my experiences, but from outside of them.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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First of all, let's put an end to Socrates, because I'm tired of this notion that knowing nothing is a sign of wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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Denying a fact is the easiest thing in the world. Many people do it, but the fact remains a fact.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

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There is only one war that the human can afford: the war against its extinction.