Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Brett Dier Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carole King Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Winston Churchill Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexis Carrel Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bella Thorne Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alan Cohen Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Agatha Christie Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Evil report carries further than any applause.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Beth Broderick Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Henry Miller Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Robert Cecil Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Alfred H. Barr Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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  • Susan Sontag Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Edgar F. Magnin Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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  • Walter Benjamin Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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