Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • William Saroyan Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William James Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lionel Trilling Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Pietro Metastasio Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Carl Sagan Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bertrand Russell Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
    Source: Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Ben Affleck Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Amos Oz Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
    Source: Interview
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Ben Stein Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Adam Ferguson Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
    Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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