Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Carol Bartz Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Victor Hugo Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Flannery O'Connor Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • Orison Swett Marden Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
    Orison Swett Marden
    American inspirational author (1848 - 1924)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Terence Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Many can argue, not many converse.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • William Shakespeare Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Thornton Wilder Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Robert Townsend Many ideas are good for a limited time - not forever.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Alexander Dubcek Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Dickens Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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