Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Bil Keane Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
    George Halas
     
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • John Morley Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Brene Brown Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • George Santayana Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Tacitus Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Kahlil Gibran March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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