Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Boyle Roche The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Benjamin Watson The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the gospel.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Amartya Sen The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Bee Wilson The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bud Grant The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Norman Angell The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
    Source: The Great Illusion (1910)
    Norman Angell
    English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member (1872 - 1967)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Plautus The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Bob Barr The definition of throwing your vote away is to go into that voting booth and vote for one of two parties that will not change the direction this country's going in.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Tacitus The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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