Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Eric Hoffer Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Addison Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • George Orwell It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anatole France It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Voltaire It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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  • William Cobbett It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Hobbes It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Adam Schiff It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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