Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Abraham Cowley Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces, and yet so humble too as not to scorn the meanest country cottages.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Ben Stein Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Rose Macaulay Sleeping in a bed - it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Euripides Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine Small crimes always precedes great ones.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Demosthenes Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Alighieri Dante Small projects need much more help than great.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Brit Marling So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • John Newton So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
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  • Stephen Hawking So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
    Source: The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Seneca So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
    Source: Bertrand Russells Best
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bob Inglis So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bill Parcells So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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