Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Allan Bloom Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • David Hume Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Hazlitt Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ovid Nothing is swifter than our years.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Plautus Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bob Riley Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Cher Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • Franklin P. Jones Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • Ivern Ball Nothing makes your sense of humor disappear faster than having someone ask where it is.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Blake Edwards Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
    Blake Edwards
    American filmmaker (1922 - 2010)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Decimus Magnus Ausonius Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
    Decimus Magnus Ausonius
    Roman poet (310 - 395)
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  • Quentin Crisp Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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