Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Garry Kasparov The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
    Source: How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Toni Morrison The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Robert Frost The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Carroll Quigley The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Nelson Mandela The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Source: Long walk to Freedom
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Corra Harris The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
    Corra Harris
     
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