Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Lydia M. Child Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alfred Adler Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • David Gemmell Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • William Saroyan Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Frederick the Great Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William James Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lionel Trilling Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Pietro Metastasio Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.
    Pietro Metastasio
    Italian poet and librettist (1698 - 1782)
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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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