Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Bill Frist Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • George Eliot Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Frederick the Great Our work is to present things that are as they are.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bernard Beckett Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
    Source: Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Barack Obama Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
    Source: 9 May 2008. youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bud Grant Over the years, I've always had one Labrador and usually two. I've had some great dogs, and I've had some dogs that didn't work out. I found them good homes and gave them away.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • E. M. Forster Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Balthus Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Caio Fonseca Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Robin George Collingwood Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Bill Cosby Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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