Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Les Brown A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Aristotle Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thurgood Marshall A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Aristotle A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Big thinking precedes great achievement.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Aristotle Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billie Burke A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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