Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Horace What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lewis Carroll When I use a word,'' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,'' it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Harold S. Geneen When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Wayne Dyer When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Molière Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Alexander Herzen You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Napoleon Hill You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Peace Pilgrim You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Rabindranath Tagore Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • George Orwell All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Bryan Burrough 'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • Candice Millard 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Carl Honore 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bailey Chase 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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