Quotes with down-on-his-luck

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  • Juvenal Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Bill Kristol Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Shuster Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Cass Sunstein Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Adrian Cronauer Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bayard Rustin Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Barry Gibb Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bette Davis May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • George S. Clason Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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