Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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• The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
  

  The New York Review of Books (20 April 1972)

  Gore Vidal
  American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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• The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.

  Bee Wilson
  British food writer, journalist and historian
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• The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.

  On War (1832)

  Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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• The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

  Lewis H. Lapham
  American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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• The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.

  Bryan Fuller
  American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

  Marshall Mcluhan
  Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

  Doug Horton
  American Protestant clergyman
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• The more we have the less we own.

  Meister Eckhart
  German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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• The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
   
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• The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• The more you know the less you need to say.
  

  Jim Rohn
  American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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• The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

  Norman Vincent Peale
  American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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• The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

  Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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• The more you reason the less you create.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer (1888 - 1959)
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• The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

  François Fénelon
  French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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• The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

  Brian Tracy
  Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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• The more you try to explain it out , the less I understand.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unintelligent
• intellectual
• determining
• regrettable
• institution
• concessions

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