Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Samuel Johnson Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Akhenaton labor not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Flower A. Newhouse Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
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  • Bob Riley Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Laughter is higher than all pain.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carol Channing Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
    Carol Channing
    American actress and singer (1921 - 2019)
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  • Mortimer Caplan Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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  • Hubert Humphrey Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Jim Rohn Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell Leave this world a little better than you found it.
    Last Message to Scouts (1941)
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • George Washington Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Benito Mussolini Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
    Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Edward Young Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • William Penn Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bill Dedman Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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