Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 7101 till 7120 of 10331.

  • Ellen Key The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Aldous Huxley The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sigmund Freud The ego is not master in its own house.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • George Eliot The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Kin Hubbard The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Helene Deutsch The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Bob Rae The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita The end of birth is death; the end of death Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou, Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls Which could not otherwise befall?
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • John Locke The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
    Second Treatise of Government VI, sec. 57
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas à Kempis The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Toni Morrison The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Pliny the Elder The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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