Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Samuel Johnson Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Russell Lowell Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Hitopadesa Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Boris Pasternak Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
    Doctor Zhivago
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is a process, not a state.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Doug Horton Growing old is not growing up.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Audre Lorde Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Benjamin Watson Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don't get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don't have time. Not that anything's wrong with the fantasy, but I just don't have time for it with my lifestyle.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Dave Barry Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Mark Twain Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • William Shakespeare Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ovid Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bill Rancic Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Angela Davis Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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