Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alexander Maclaren If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Burgess If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Vince Lombardi If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Cameron Sinclair If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bel Powley If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Hyman G. Rickover If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.
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  • Ben Bernanke If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ray Kroc If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Malcolm X If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Thomas E. Dewey If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
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  • John Wooden If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Paul Auster If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Malcolm X If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Karl Albrecht If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • James Baldwin If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bryan Fuller If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. 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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