Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Will Rogers Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Larry McMurtry Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
    Larry McMurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Asa Gray Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Voltaire Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Arthur Levitt Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bob Geldof Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Philip Roth Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • John Berger Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Anne Frank Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Epictetus Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Alice Walker Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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