Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Aristotle The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Robert Browning The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Bob Graham The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Graham The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Riley The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Aaron Allston The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Miller The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Andrea Dworkin The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bruno Maag The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Napoleon The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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