Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • George Bernard Shaw The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Camilla Belle The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Billie Lourd The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
    Billie Lourd
    American actress (1992 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Barbara Mandrell The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William Saroyan The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Billy Graham The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax The greatest Part of Business of the World, is the Effect of not thinking.
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    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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