Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert E. Lee Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Eric Hoffer Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Buddha With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bob Filner With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Antonin Artaud With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Bradley A. Smith With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bob Newhart With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • George Orwell Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Brad Bird Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Will Durant Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Woman for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: ''Blind yourself, for I am blind.''
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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