Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Candace Bushnell The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • André Gide The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Walter Bagehot The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Barry Commoner The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • E. M. Forster The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Emma Goldman The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bob Barr The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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