Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 8221 till 8240 of 12035.

  • Robert Green Ingersoll The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Vince Lombardi The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Dern The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 64
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • Harold Rosenberg The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • André Maurois The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Henry Home The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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