Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Anthony Robbins Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • Bertrand Russell Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Cowley Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discover
    And not to me, thy no less silent lover?
    Bathing in the River.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Aristophanes Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • John Donne Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Samuel Johnson Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Emily Dickinson Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bonnie Blair Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert E. Lee Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Eric Hoffer Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Buddha With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bob Filner With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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