Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
    Speech at Bali climate change conference (2007)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Rebecca West This is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but a sure way of losing it.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Ann Bancroft This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher This lady is not for turning.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Brooks Atkinson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Austan Goolsbee This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Bob Newhart This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Quentin Crisp This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Aaron Allston This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Hubert Humphrey This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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