Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Blaise Pascal The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bun E. Carlos The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aldous Huxley The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Rony Seikaly The NBA players are smart enough to know that you get the virus from unprotected sex, and we're not going to have unprotected sex on the basketball court.
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  • Bayard Taylor The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Eric Hoffer The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alan Greenspan The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p. 17
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Adam Schiff The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises - it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Bill Gates The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
    BusinessWeek, 26 November 1984
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Betty Williams The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Iris Murdoch The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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