Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Albert Claude This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Dorothy Parker This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Will Rogers This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carter G. Woodson This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Albert Claude This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Aaron Klug This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Richard of Saint Victor This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
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  • Bertrand Russell This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carlton Cuse This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Veeck This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Daniel Webster This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Charles Dickens This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sebastian Faulks This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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