Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Bernard Goldberg Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Liberation does not come from outside.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Liberation is not deliverance.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • David Lloyd George Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Earl Warren Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Augustine Birrell Libraries are not made, they grow.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • V. S. Pritchett Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Socrates Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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