Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Blaise Pascal There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Barbara Park There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Billy Graham There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Mary Kay Ash There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
    Mary Kay Ash
    American businesswoman (1918 - 2001)
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  • Ray Bradbury There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Joseph Brodsky There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Laurence Sterne There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Bill James There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Arnold Bennett There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • John Locke There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Sir William Temple There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Albert Einstein There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Baldwin There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Michael Cunningham There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
    Michael Cunningham
    American novelist and screenwriter (1952 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • L. Ron Hubbard There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Stokely Carmichael There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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