Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Lord George Byron A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Caine A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Ferdinand Foch A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Bobby Bowden A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Jack London A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Salman Rushdie A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • David Mitchell A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
    Source: Number9Dream (2007) 365
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Abigail Van Buren A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Joseph Addison A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Publilius Syrus A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Sydney Smith A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Corcoran A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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