Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • David Jenkins No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • David Hume No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arthur Erickson No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Carrie Chapman Catt No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Art Rooney Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • James Baldwin Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Elie Wiesel Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Edmund Burke Nobody made ??a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • C. Wright Mills Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Sheppard Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.
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  • Boomer Esiason Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Baruch Spinoza None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Edith Hamilton None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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