Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Henry David Thoreau Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Babe Paley All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Ellen Glasgow All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Blaise Pascal All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
    Original: Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Alice Walker All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • J. B. Priestley Already we Viewers, when not viewing, have begun to whisper to one another that the more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Winston Churchill Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Salman Rushdie An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Anatole France An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Adolf Hitler Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Albert Einstein Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde Anyone looking for a beautiful woman, good and intelligent, do not try one but three.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde Art is not living. It is the use of living.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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