Quotes with holier-than-thou

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• Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  American poet (1892 - 1950)
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• Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

  Bjork
  Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

  Carre Otis
  American model and actress (1968 - )
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• Patience will achieve more than force.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  Vamps and Tramps (1994)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

  Lawana Blackwell
  English writer
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• Peace has her victories no less renowned than war.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

  Kin Hubbard
  American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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• Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.

  Letter to Cromwell

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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• Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

  Anwar Sadat
  Egyptian politician (1918 - 1981)
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• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

  The National Press Club in Washington DC, 1957

  Golda Meir
  Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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• People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

  Anton Chekhov
  Russian playwright and short story writer
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• People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

  The Art of Seduction

  Robert Greene
  American author (1959 - )
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• People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

  Carson Kressley
  American television personality, actor, and designer (1969 - )
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• People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.

  Billy Joe Saunders
  English professional boxer (1989 - )
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• People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conservative
• contemporary
• good-humored
• complicated
• stereotypes
• discovered

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