Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Charles Buxton Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Colin Powell Experts often possess more data than judgment.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Bob Brown Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Frederick Hudson Ecker Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry Christopher Bailey Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
    Henry Christopher Bailey
    English author of detective fiction (1878 - 1961)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bo Bennett Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • David Mitchell False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Julie Burchill Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • David Bowie Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.
    David Bowie
    English singer, songwriter and actor (1947 - 2016)
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  • Ann Oakley Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Brandon Sanderson Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Andy Warhol Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Fear guides more than gratitude.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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