Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Bob Corker If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bryan Adams If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Brooks Robinson If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
    Brooks Robinson
    American professional baseball player (1937 - )
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  • Alexander Pope If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Francis Bacon Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Shashi Tharoor Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
    Shashi Tharoor
    Indian politician and writer (1956 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • John Lennon Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Fenton Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • Marcel Proust Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • E. M. Cioran Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bernard Sahlins Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
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  • Cass Sunstein In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Burt Rutan In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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