Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • David Mitchell The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Pasquier Quesnel The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
    Pasquier Quesnel
    French theologian (1634 - 1719)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Benjamin Rush The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Brian Pickrell The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bill Gross The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Joel A. Barker The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
    Joel A. Barker
    American businessman
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  • Boy George The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Martin Luther King The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    Source: The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
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  • John Foster Dulles The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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