Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Emily Brontë A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • George S. Patton A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • George S. Patton A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • John Henry Newman A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Alfred Nobel A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Austin O'Malley A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • B. W. Powe A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Andrew Vachss A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Charles Dickens A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mario Puzo A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • George Herbert A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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