Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Ann Coulter I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bette Midler I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Shirley Conran I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you're going to be lazy.
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  • Henry J. Kaiser I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
    Henry J. Kaiser
    American industrialist (1882 - 1967)
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  • David Gemmell I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
    Troy: Shield Of Thunder (1990) 371
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer I need physics more than friends.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Johnson I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Jonson I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
    For else it could not be,
    That she,
    Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
    And cast my love behind.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Anita Loos I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Erickson I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Queen Victoria I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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  • Alexandre Dumas père I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • James Baldwin I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Vaclav Havel I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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