Quotes with be-honest-at-all-costs

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  • Chester Nimitz A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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  • Tacitus A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • C. Wright Mills A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Giles A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bryan Adams A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Penn A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Cullen Hightower A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • William Blake A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • William Hazlitt A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bob Shacochis A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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