Quotes with have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p.275
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Bell Hooks In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • John Barrymore In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • Solon In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
    Solon
    Greek statesman (638 - 558)
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  • Carol P. Christ In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
    Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Gamaliel Bradford In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
    Gamaliel Bradford
    American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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  • Sextus Propertius In great things it is enough even to have willed.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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  • John Ruskin In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Maclaren In heaven after ''ages of ages'' of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, ''It doth not yet appear what we shall be.''
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Bruce Dern In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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