Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Carlo Rubbia In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Boris Pasternak In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Alexander Smith In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Stendhal In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Walter Lippmann In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alexis Carrel In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Thomas De Quincey In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Bethenny Frankel In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • William Penn In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bill Dedman In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bono In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bob Ney In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Jane Austen In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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