Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Richard Nixon Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain -if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Aaron McGruder Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • George Sand One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Anish Kapoor One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Stephen Hawking One can not really argue with a mathematical theorem.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Virginia Woolf One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • W. H. Auden One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
    James Watson
     
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  • C. Wright Mills One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
    Source: The Sociological Imagination (1959) P. 31, commenting on the verbosity of the chief wo
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Boris Pasternak One day Lara went out and did not come back.... She died or vanished somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list which was afterwards mislaid.
    Source: Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 15
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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