Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Alan Cohen Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Frist Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Personally i'm always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Seneca Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Arnold Newman Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
    Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Sir John Harvey Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.
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  • Aldous Huxley Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Beyonce Knowles Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carice van Houten Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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