Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • E. M. Cioran No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Aldous Huxley No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Collected essays (1959)
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Marquis de Sade No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Channing Pollock No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ben Johnson No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Denis Waitley No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • W. Clement Stone No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Anton Chekhov No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Ellen Glasgow No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Samuel Johnson No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • William S. Gilbert No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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