Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Rod Serling Seeing is not always believing.
    Rod Serling
    American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator (1924 - 1975)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert J. Mckain Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • Bell Hooks Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Francis Bacon Small matters win great commendation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • William Shakespeare So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Carol Roth Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brendan Dooling Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Les Brown Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • John Wooden Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Joseph Addison Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • St. John of the Cross Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Taste does not come by chance: it is a long and laborious task to acquire it.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Adam Savage That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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