Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
    Original: Nicht durch Zorn, sondern durch Lachen tötet man.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Wordsworth Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Wordsworth Not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.
    Grant that by this (1822)
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Bruce Barton Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Edward Shepherd Mead Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Salman Rushdie Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • André Gide Not everyone can be an orphan.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Baldwin Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Russell Lowell Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lois Horowitz Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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