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Thales Quotes

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

Thales

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 624 BC - 546 BC

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Grateful Woman Man I Am Animal Born

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

Jimmie Johnson

Opinion Feel Wrong Right I Feel

Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.

Robert Shea

Know Skills More Seem Variety Only

Every time we go into the voting booth, we are choosing the moral and spiritual direction of our nation. That is a privilege and responsibility that should not be abdicated.

Robert Jeffress

Time Responsibility Spiritual Voting

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

Ann Hood

Love Time Personality People World

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Jefferson Han

Grow Better Design Feel You Look

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

Rory Bremner

I Am New York Proud Financial Worth

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Rosa Parks

Door Start White Go Pay Bus

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

Molly Ivins

Attitude People Texas End Impact

Sometimes, when we play against weaker teams, everyone says, 'Oh, you won because you played weaker teams.'

Luka Modric

You Play Sometimes Everyone Against

I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

Jason Aaron

Love Day Struggle End Of The Day End

We see the Super Hornet as an opportunity... to tie directly into the 'Make in India' strategy.

Dennis Muilenburg

Opportunity Strategy India See Tie

I think confidence is a big part of it. Also luck - the ball has got to fall for you in the right time and the right place.

Dele Alli

Confidence Time Luck Think You Fall