Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Woody Allen His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Hazlitt His worst is better than any other person's best.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Blake Farenthold Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Jeane Kirkpatrick History is a better guide than good intentions.
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  • Edward Gibbon History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Henry Ford History is more or less bunk.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Aldous Huxley Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ben Hecht Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Camille Paglia Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Bernanke Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Britney Spears Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Plato Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bill Pascrell House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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