Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Dylan Thomas Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Grover Cleveland Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • C. S. Lewis Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
    Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Ch. 15
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Doug Horton Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Harvey S. Firestone Thought, not money, is the real business capital...
    Harvey S. Firestone
    American businessman
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  • Woody Allen Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Ashvaghosha Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.
    Ashvaghosha
     
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  • Buddha Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bill Bryson Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.
    Source: Im a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • John Milton Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • William Wycherley Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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