Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Benjamin E. Mays Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • B. R. Ambedkar For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • James Elroy Flecker For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
    James Elroy Flecker
    English poet (1884 - 1915)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Lynd Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Winston Churchill From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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