All Sayings

238 sayings found from the Modern era

You have to be odd to be number one.

— Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1956
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I am not easily deterred by setbacks.

— Rosalind Franklin c. 1950s
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The time will come when man will fly.

— Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) early 1900s
Shocking

Riots are the language of the unheard.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1968
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The faster you go, the shorter you are.

— Albert Einstein Undetermined
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

— Abraham Lincoln 1856
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The modern state is a soulless machine.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1917
Controversial

Only force rules. Force is the first law.

— Adolf Hitler 1922 (approx)
Controversial

Television is a chewing gum for the eyes.

— Ray Bradbury 1982
Controversial

A disease is not an entity, but a process.

— Robert Koch circa 1880s
Strange & Unusual

I am a Polish woman, and I am proud of it.

— Marie Curie circa 1920s
Controversial

I have seen the future and it is wireless.

— Guglielmo Marconi 1901
Controversial

The world is not a game, but it has rules.

— John von Neumann 1940s
Humorous

The decisive means for politics is violence.

— Max Weber 1919
Shocking

Money is the most terrible destroyer of form.

— Georg Simmel 1900
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The mind can only attend to one thing at a time.

— James Clerk Maxwell 1870
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.

— John Stuart Mill 1862
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I am not a man of systems, and I have no desire to be one.

— Alexis de Tocqueville 1835
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