Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Anna Seward Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
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  • Heinrich Suso Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
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  • August Wilson Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • William Shakespeare Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Booth Tarkington Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aldous Huxley Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Woodward Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bob Thaves Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • William Shakespeare Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Don Shula Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
    Don Shula
    American football coach and player (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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