Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Wayne Dyer Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Michel Foucault Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Assata Shakur Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • T. S. Eliot Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bill Flores From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred de Vigny From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • William Blake Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
    Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Stephen Hawking Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
    A Brief History of Time (1988)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bob Graham Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • William Bolitho General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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