Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Oscar Wilde The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Albert J. Nock The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Ben Kingsley The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Campbell Newman The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
    Source: Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Auberon Herbert The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Mark Twain The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Alan Cohen The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Jim Rohn The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gaston Bachelard The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Black Kettle The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
    Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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