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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.


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VOLTAIRE In my opinion the cyclical poverty that plagues this country is formidable.
THEE AMAZING GRACE Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
FLOWER A. NEWHOUSE Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because...
MICHAEL CRICHTON After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my fam...
ANNETTE FUNICELLO In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice
LOUIS KRONENBERGER Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life...
C. JOYBELL C. Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
JONATHON SCOTT PAYNE The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
ADRIAN CRONAUER If i'm louder would you see me?
NIALL HORAN Through this trip, the scientists will gain a better understanding which will hopefully lead us to m...
AKHIL BAKSHI My opinion is we're going to need everything we can get our hands on. I'm more than a little concern...
BILL DYER No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM MESURIER We would have preferred to see more on interest rates. This 'confidence' crisis has been caused by a...
ADAM LE MESURIER Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I found this quote more relevant today than it was yesterday: 'Man is born to live in the convulsion...
SHANE JOSEPH No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CATT No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.
PETER MANSEAU My opinion, ... ... is it was not caused by somebody's fingernail.
MICHAEL BADEN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think
ALFRED AUSTIN It's really quite an eerie sound to hear the Earth ripping apart like that. We hear it on smaller ea...
MAYA TOLSTOY If his statements have caused him angst, caused him trouble, then that's of his own making. It's up ...
CHUCK DARRELL There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mi...
CHANDRIKA KUMARATUNGA Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other sin...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more...
GARY PAULSEN There is no more biased opinion someone has for you than the one you have of yourself
JACOB MAHURIEN Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. ...
GARY HOPKINS More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
NAPOLEON HILL nothing more than his personal opinion.
TONI ATKINS There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
MARGARET LEE RUNBECK The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of st...
ELAINE PAGELS The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.
PAULO COELHO It's been suggested this data set will be used by more people on earth than all the data NASA's ever...
HOWARD EISEN The possible explanation I hear on this could be earth movement or vibration. It has never happened ...
JAMES WAKIBARA He has a little irritation on his knee. I don't think it is anything more than that.
PAT RILEY God wants to create something new on this earth; something that nobody has ever known or seen until ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA was profoundly saddened to learn of the massive loss of life and destruction caused by a series of e...
FRED ECKHARD It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
JOHANN G. SEUME Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more end...
ADOLF HITLER Our pressure got to them. Our press caused them some trouble.
DOUG MCCRARY I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl...
ALLEN WEST Each person has their own calling on this Earth.
BILLY RAY CYRUS Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed ...
ELLEN TAUSCHER I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The only thing which has kept Mac OS X relatively safe up until now is the fact that the market shar...
NEIL ARCHIBALD This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.
JENNIE FINCH You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.
MIRANDA KENNEALLY Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on ea...
BJORN LOMBORG Relative to last year, I'd say we are further from an eruption. Those thousands of very deep earthqu...
MIKE POLAND The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, . . .
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
IAN FLEMING Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.
CHARLES OSGOOD This thing has many more miles in the air than on the ground.
FRED KANTER I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on ...
DANIEL TAMMET I was a little skeptical coming here. I'm from California. We do earthquakes, no Katrina.
OMARION We don't believe any weapon other than the suspects own hand is what caused this injury to the child...
EDDIE RODRIGUEZ This has to be one of the coldest places on earth.
LES SHEPARD While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
BILL DIXON This was a little more than I bargained for.
JULIE MARTIN Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t...
HUGO BALL when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest ...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD This is not an earthquake prediction instrument. We are testing whether these types of earthquakes o...
MARK ZOBACK I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
DAMIAN LEWIS Again, I feel like the Lord has just caused it to happen; more publicity than I've ever gotten in my...
WANDA JACKSON They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here...
THOMAS HOBBES They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet here...
THOMAS HOBBES This is a large, fast-moving fire that already has caused at least $1 million in damage, ... More th...
GARY LOCKE You are vulnerable people in this country. In case of any trouble caused as a result of bad reportin...
PROF. MONDO KAGONYERA I think the Earth is in really serious trouble and I think we haven't got a lot of time. I'd rather ...
BILL RELYEA In my opinion this tie is one of the greatest ties or wins in the short history of the Montgomery Be...
ADRIAN BENZIGER It is always wise to never work on any advice, suggestion or opinion of a person whose views, more o...
ANUJ SOMANY Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM In a pursuit of convenience, man has only caused more inconvenience for himself!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU You're entitled to your opinion. I frankly don't really care what you have to say. It has very littl...
SEAN HANNITY There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom
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