Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Alan Cohen What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Albrecht Durer What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Carole Bouquet What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Anatole France What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Jeremy Taylor What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Source: Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Stephen King What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Toni Morrison What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Seneca What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Horace What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • David Malouf What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
    Source: An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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