Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Alfred A. Montapert The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Eric Hoffer The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Louise Erdrich The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Blaise Pascal The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Beeban Kidron The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The group who really could benefit from more protein is not fit young gym-goers but older people, who seem to be at much greater risk of protein deficiency.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • John Updike The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Sheldon Kopp The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
    Sheldon Kopp
    American psychotherapist and author (1929 - 1999)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Susan Sontag The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Carol Gilligan The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Midge Decter The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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