Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Mignon McLaughlin The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Midge Decter The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Butler The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Erickson The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Napoleon The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Henry Ford The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 6
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • John Ruskin The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

    My Life and Work: Top Biography
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Mark Twain The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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