Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Ronald Reagan I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • B. B. King I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bea Arthur I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Barry Gibb I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bill Owens Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Hannah More Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Marcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bertrand Russell If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Koestler If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Adam Schiff If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Buddy Rich If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Robert Conklin If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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