Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Henry David Thoreau Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Caroline Knapp Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Mario Puzo Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Socrates False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Jean Rostand Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Brenda Ueland Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Brad Henry Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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