Quotes with back-bite

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  • Ben Gibbard Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Baltasar Gracián He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Dhammapada He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bobby Jindal Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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  • Bradley Chicho Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Joan Lunden Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
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  • Camilla Belle Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Bill Flores House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lee Trevino How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • Philip Roth How far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Bob Riley However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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