Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Joseph Joubert Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Johnson Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Ben Huh New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
    Ben Huh
    South-Korean-American internet entrepreneur (1979 - )
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  • John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Neil Simon New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
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  • David Letterman New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
    David Letterman
    American television host, comedian, writer, and producer (1947 - )
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  • Carter Burwell New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class ; publication and not news.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Wyndham Lewis No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill No crime is so great as daring to excel.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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