Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Alice Walker The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Salman Rushdie The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bram Fischer The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
    Bram Fischer
    South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908 - 1975)
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  • Kofi Annan The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Simon Sinek The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
    Simon Sinek
    British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant (1973 - )
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  • Carol Loomis The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William James The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles Browder The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Rogers The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Bertrand Russell The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boo Weekley The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Bob Filner The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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