Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Alan Dershowitz The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Brother Lawrence The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
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  • Josh Billings The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
    Speech San Francisco (9 september 1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bertrand Russell The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brendon Burchard The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Oscar Wilde The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Adam C. Engst The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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  • Howard Whitman The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Mother Teresa The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Sunday The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Paul Valery The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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