Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Samuel Smiles Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • Ben Huh Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
    Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) Preface
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Annie Dillard Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Samuel M. Shoemaker Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.
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  • Thomas Hardy Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Barry Unsworth Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • James Baldwin Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brent Scowcroft Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Oswald C. Hoffman Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human.
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  • Anna Quindlen Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • A.J. Cronin Even if my country remains in war with yours... remember... i am not your enemy.
    A.J. Cronin
    Scottish novelist and physician (1896 - 1981)
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  • Carlos Gershenson Even if you do everything a woman wants, it will not be enough. But of course, this is no reason for not doing it.
    December 2006) May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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