Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • G.W.F. Hegel The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Aldous Huxley The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • George Orwell The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • William Jennings Bryan The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Billy Corgan The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Ezra Pound The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Will Rogers The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Nathaniel P. Willis The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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  • Ezra Pound The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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