Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Alan Watts Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Caity Lotz On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Betsy Beers On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
    Source: Bhagavadgita
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Aldous Huxley On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • A. E. Housman On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Cass Sunstein On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won't support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bobby Ghosh On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Angela Merkel On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Boris Spassky On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Paracelsus Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Stewart Brand Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
    Stewart Brand
     
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  • Benjamin Tucker Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.
    Source: Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Rod Mckeun Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...
    Rod Mckeun
     
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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