Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Plato These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oscar Wilde They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buddha They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Socrates They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Robert Burton They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Horace They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Albert Einstein They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Malcolm X They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Albert Hofmann They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.
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  • William Shakespeare They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Dundes They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • C. Everett Koop They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joyce Grenfell They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
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