Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Abraham H. Maslow If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Denis Diderot In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Pablo Picasso Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Fuller It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Thomas Fuller Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • André Gide Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Fuller Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Burning Spear Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Richard Nixon No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bill Walton No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Andre Breton No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
    A Psalm of Life
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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