Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • A. E. Housman And silence sounds no worse than cheers
    After earth has stopped the ears.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alice Walker And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Omar Khayyam And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help - for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Marcus Aurelius And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Birch Bayh And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
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  • Barack Obama And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barack Obama And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bai Juyi And, because she so illumined and glorified her clan,
    She brought to every father, every mother through the empire,
    Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Buddy Rich And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • George Eliot Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Clarendon Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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  • David O. Mckay Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.
    David O. Mckay
    American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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