Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Bertolt Brecht No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • André Maurois No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Plautus No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Publilius Syrus No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Annie Leibovitz No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Claudius No one is free who does not lord over himself.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Blaise Pascal No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Heraclitus No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Nelson Mandela No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Phillips Brooks No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.
    The Rules of Attraction (2010) 203
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward Dahlberg No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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