Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 4622.

  • Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Seneca If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ben Horowitz If the employees fundamentally trust the C.E.O., then communications will be vastly more efficient than if they don't. Telling things as they are is a critical part of building this trust.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Robert South If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Thomas Jefferson If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Teena Booth If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Billy Wilder If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
    The Bright Side of Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • William James If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Margaret Mead If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bill Flores If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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