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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #stern




Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.


Arthur C. Clarke


#detective stories #fiction #politicians #read #science

To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.


William Kingdon Clifford


#authority #buddha #consider #eastern #experience

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.


Brian Cox


#been #class #come #community #eastern

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.


Jim Clyburn


#alternatives #america #assistance #clean #clean energy

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.


Stephen Colbert


#books #called #college #courses #first

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.


Patricia Cornwell


#billy graham #carolina #conservative #down #down the road

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.


Herbert Croly


#concerned #democracy #development #distinguished #domestic

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.


Roald Dahl


#egypt #fighter #fighter pilot #flew #flying

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.


Rick Danko


#come #country #five #had #i

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.


John Hope Franklin


#appreciate #begin #better #better world #country