Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • William Ewart Gladstone The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.
    Source: Rede, 1881
    William Ewart Gladstone
    British statesman (1809 - 1898)
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  • Cyril Connolly The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Jules Renard The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Jackie Joyner Kersee The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
    Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Alan Cohen The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Anais Nin The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Maya Angelou The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Lao-Tzu The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Barbara Boxer The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
    Original: Le savant n'est pas l'homme qui fournit les vraies réponses; c'est celui qui pose les vraies questions.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Joseph Conrad The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
    Bayard Ruskin
     
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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