Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Swami Brahmananda The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Paul Auster The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • William Shakespeare The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carmen Sylva The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that.
    Carmen Sylva
    Ps. van Elisabeth zu Wied, Queen of Romania (1843 - 1916)
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  • Anderson Cooper The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • John Blake The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jacques Bossuet The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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  • John Sterling The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
    Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • John Mortimer The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • William Shakespeare The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
    King Lear IV, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Gates The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • William Butler Yeats The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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