Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Harper Lee Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bob Newhart For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • George Orwell For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Angela Merkel For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Ann Rule For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Amy Lowell For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Cass Sunstein For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Boris Spassky For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Carter Heyward For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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  • Oscar Wilde For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Somerset Maugham For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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