Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Alain de Botton We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • George Sheehan We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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  • Asa Hutchinson We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Aristotle We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • St. Catherine of Genoa We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.
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  • Ronald Reagan We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Cass Sunstein We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport or fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • A. C. Swinburne We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Tryon Edwards We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Louis de Bernieres We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Malcolm de Chazal We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Bill Shuster We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Capper We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Angela Davis We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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