Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
    Original: Bettler aber sollte man ganz abschaffen! Wahrlich, man ärgert sich ihnen zu geben und ärgert sich ihnen nicht zu geben.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Walt Whitman Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Fanny Brice Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
    Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Bud Grant Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bud Grant Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert Being in Nashville was not me, and I needed to go home and reset before I got in over my head.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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