Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Barbra Streisand How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Coco Chanel How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Anne Brontë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Terence How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Martin Luther How soon not now, becomes never.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Blaise Pascal How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Dhammapada However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Riley However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bob Filner However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
    Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Bill Shuster However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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