Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • George F. Will Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Al Capp Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Herman Melville Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Nelson Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • James F. Byrnes Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • B. B. King Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Guy Debord Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bo Bennett Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Calvin Klein Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
    A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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  • Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Campbell Brown Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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