Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Samuel Butler From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. I: A Slave Among Slaves
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Alfred de Vigny From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Brad Dourif Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.
    Brad Dourif
    American actor (1950 - )
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • William Hazlitt General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bruce Nauman Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • André Malraux Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • George-Louis de Buffon Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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