Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Carlos Castaneda To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Samuel Johnson To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anton Chekhov To advise is not to compel.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • George Orwell To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Peace Pilgrim To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Rodgers To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Richard Whately To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Wendell Phillips To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • John Milton To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Myriam Miedzian To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Johann G. Fichte To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
    Johann G. Fichte
    German philosopher
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  • Albert Camus To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Helen Rowland To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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