Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Baruch Spinoza We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
    Ethics, part 2
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • David Blaine We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
    David Blaine
    American illusionist (1973 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • George Wald We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are wiser than we know.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Richardson We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Billy Al Bengston We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bo Bennett We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • William Arthur Ward We can learn much from wise words, and less from wise guys.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bert McCracken We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Matthew McConaughey We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
    Matthew McConaughey
    American actor, director, producer, writer, and co-teacher (1969 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Warren Buffett We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • David Grayson We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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