Quotes with -they

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  • Ben Parr The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Alan Hollinghurst The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
    The Line of Beauty (2014) 146
    Alan Hollinghurst
    English writer, translator and poet (1954 - )
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  • Alan Hollinghurst The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
    The Line of Beauty (2014) 146
    Alan Hollinghurst
    British writer (1954 - )
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  • Jacques Bossuet The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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  • John Lennon The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • John Mortimer The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Bill Gates The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Wilson Mizner The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • John Wooden The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Joseph Joubert The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • William Butler Yeats The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • Addison Mizner The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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