Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Archibald Macleish We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Gerald Brenan We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
    Gerald Brenan
    British writer and hispanist (1894 - 1987)
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  • Winston Churchill We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Steinbeck We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bennet Omalu We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • George Holbrook Jackson We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Seneca We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ben Carson We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Baruch Spinoza We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
    Ethics, part 2
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • David Blaine We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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