Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Carol Bartz Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Many can argue, not many converse.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • William Shakespeare Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Robert Townsend Many ideas are good for a limited time - not forever.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Alexander Dubcek Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bil Keane Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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