Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 4584.

  • Adam Smith It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl I. Hagen It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
    About Israel Comment in connection with the annual Europride, i
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Seneca It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Carl Rowan It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • William James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Butler It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Seneca It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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