Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Bo Bennett Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Calvin Klein Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
    A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Emily Brontë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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  • Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Edward F. Halifax True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Campbell Brown Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Spock Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Bill Shorten Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Lord George Byron Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leo Rosten Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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