Quotes with less-than-excellent

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  • Bellamy Young If I could have anyone's mind for a day, I really can't think of anyone other than Einstein.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Anna Held If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Bill Gates If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Goldberg If I wasn't prepared knowing every year there is a huge chance of a fire that will require me to evacuate my property, then I'm an ignoramus. If people at this point don't see that terrorism is a reality, and don't take steps to prepare themselves a little more than they were the day before, then they are also an irresponsible ignoramus.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Belle Boyd If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Barrymore If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Eugène Delacroix If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Kofi Annan If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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