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  • Benjamin Walker The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Joan Baez The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
    Joan Baez
    American singer, songwriter (1941 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Hosea Ballou The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Thomas Moore The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Ben Stein The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • William Hazlitt The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Cass Sunstein The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Publilius Syrus The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Frederic Raphael The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Billy Collins The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The pen is mightier than the sword.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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