Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Leonardo DaVinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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  • Allen Klein Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Victor Borge Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Umberto Eco I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Harry S. Truman I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ann Rule I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • William Shakespeare I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Andrew Jackson I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller I am better than my reputation.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • James Baldwin I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Martin Luther I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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