Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Antoine Rivarol It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Cosby It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Sutter It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Emmet Fox It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
    Emmet Fox
     
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Ernest Henley It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate,
    I am the captain of my soul.
    Source: Invictus
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Rod Serling It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
    Rod Serling
    American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator (1924 - 1975)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Jean Rostand It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Anthony Robbins It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Paul Goodman It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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