Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Bertrand Russell Most people would rather die than think: many do.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aristotle Most people would rather give than get affection.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bertrand Russell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aldous Huxley Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aeschylus Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bernard Malamud Mourning is a hard business, Cesare said. If people knew there'd be less death.
    Life is Better than Death, in Idiots First
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Cliff Fadiman Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Campbell Brown Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bill Flores Mr. Trump needs to show how he will address the critical issues on the minds of Americans: national security and economic opportunity for hardworking American families. Americans need to see more vision and less trash talk.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Madame Guizot Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sagan Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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  • Bono Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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