Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Billie Holiday Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • George Eliot Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Donne Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Ben Stein Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carl Honore Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Alighieri Dante Small projects need much more help than great.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Doug Horton Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • William S. Burroughs So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Ajay Devgan So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Eric Hoffer Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bryan Adams Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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