Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Arthur Levitt Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • John Wesley Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Will Rogers One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Orwell One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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  • Robert Frost One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Jane Austen One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Jonathan Swift One enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
    Journal to Stella (30 June 1711)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Plautus One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • George Herbert One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Thomas Paine One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lew Wallace One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
    Lew Wallace
    American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of (1827 - 1905)
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  • Frank Moore Colby One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Virginia Woolf One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anne Hutchinson One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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