Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Gates The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • William Butler Yeats The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Billy Baldwin The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • Milan Kundera The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Annie Dillard The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
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  • Pearl S. Buck The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • George Santayana The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Richard W. Livingston The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    Source: God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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