Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Pierre Corneille The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Betty Dodson The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
    Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Commoner The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Sean O'Casey The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Lord George Byron The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Carson The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • William Wordsworth The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Joseph Joubert The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Maureen Dowd The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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  • Auguste Rodin The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Paradox, Edward Fredkin's The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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  • John Lennon The more I see the less I know for sure.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Audre Lorde The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Robert Wilson The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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