Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Aesop Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Albert Einstein God does not play dice with the universe.
    Original: Gott würfelt nicht.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Martin Luther King In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Holt No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Ambition is not a vice of little people.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Victor Hugo An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • W. H. Auden ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Greg Anderson ... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Billy Graham A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Seneca A great fortune is a great slavery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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