Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Paul Auster Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alan Cohen As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Gates At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
    Interview published in BBC (website): news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Be not simply good; be good for something.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Hybels Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Marie Beyon Ray Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • H. Ross Perot Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • William Shakespeare But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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