Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Wyndham Lewis No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Robert Lynd No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many things so inevitably interesting.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Citium Zeno No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
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  • Seneca No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Thomas Szasz No further evidence is needed to show that ''mental illness'' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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