Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Henry David Thoreau How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Wallace Stevens How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Herodotus How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Junius How much easier is it to be generous than just.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Benjamin Disraeli How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • B. C. Forbes How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bubba Smith Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Laurens van der Post Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
    Laurens van der Post
    South African army officer and English author (1906 - 1996)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Mann Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Anna Lindh Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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