Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Paul Auster To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
    Timbuktu (2010) 59
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Vachel Lindsay To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Jean Rostand To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • George Steiner To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    The Observer, 21 August 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Lee To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • John Churton Collins To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Henry James To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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