Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Abraham H. Maslow Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Mann Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Anna Lindh Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Leonardo DaVinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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  • Agnes Repplier Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Allen Klein Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Victor Borge Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Billy Collins Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Umberto Eco I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Harry S. Truman I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ann Rule I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Buchi Emecheta I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • William Shakespeare I am a man more sinned against than sinning.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Andrew Jackson I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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