Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Brendan I. Koerner Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Roy Hattersley Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
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  • Emma Goldman Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Immermann Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse.
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  • Rene Dubos More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
    Rene Dubos
    French-American microbiologist, pathologist and environmentalist
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith More die in the United States from too much food than from too little.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Napoleon Hill More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Sir John Denham More in prosperity is reason tost than ships in storms, their helms and anchors lost.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Barbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Candice Millard More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bruce Schneier More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
    Schneier, Bruce. Interview with Doug Kaye. IT Conversations: Bruce Schneier. 2004-04-16.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Roy L. Smith More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • P. T. Barnum More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Gabriel Heatter More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
    Gabriel Heatter
    American radio commentator and journalist (1890 - 1972)
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  • Eric Hoffer More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mother Teresa More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Dedman More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Bryson More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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