Quotes with not-so-great

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  • John Ruskin It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Billy Idol It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Bill Hader It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Albert Einstein It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Arthur Henderson It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • C.E.M. Joad It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.
    C.E.M. Joad
     
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  • Julie Burchill It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • André Agassi It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
    André Agassi
    American tennis player (1970 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Fielding It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • Carson McCullers It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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