Quotes with not-so-fun

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• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

  ― Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  ― Aaron Neville
  American soul and country singer (1941 - )
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• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  ― Barbara Hershey
  American actress (1948 - )
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• It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

  Source: september 1982

  ― Steve Jobs
  American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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• It's not possible to stop love.
  

  ― Alice Walker
  American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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• It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
  

  ― Marilyn Monroe
  American actress (1926 - 1962)
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• It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.

  ― Zig Ziglar
  American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

  ― Erica Jong
  American author (1942 - )
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• Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

  ― Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  ― Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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• Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

  ― Daniel Webster
  American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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• Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
  

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Leadership is a choice, not a position.
  

  ― Stephen R. Covey
  American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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• Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

  ― Queen Elizabeth II
  Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  ― Jose Ortega Y Gasset
  Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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• Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

  ― Louis Ferdinand Céline
  French writer (1894 - 1961)
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• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

  ― Thornton T. Munger
  American scientist and environmentalist
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• Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

  ― George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
  

  ― Stephen R. Covey
  American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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• Live out of your imagination, not your history.

  ― Stephen R. Covey
  American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• respectability
• transparency
• predicament
• imagination
• determines
• anticipate

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