Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Karl Marx Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Tom Morris Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
    Tom Morris
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Levinson Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Edwards Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • William Penn Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Arsene Wenger Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ben Gibbard Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
    Source: The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Frank Dane Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Henry S. Haskins Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Ben Horowitz Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Carol Loomis Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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