Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Bell Hooks One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Margaret Thatcher One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bill Williams One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Branford Marsalis One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Bernard Marcus One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy One of the things you realize about getting older is that not everybody is going to get older with you.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bob Riley One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • James C. Humes One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Lord Chesterfield One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bruce Lee One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Franklin One should eat to live, not live to eat.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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