Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Johannes Kepler The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • Ashley Montagu The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Forester The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Stephen Hawking The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Carole King The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Benedict Arnold The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
    Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Carol Bellamy The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Al Sharpton The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Cary Fowler The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Hugh Latimer The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
    Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)
    Hugh Latimer
    British bishop and Protestant martyr (1470 - 1555)
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  • Lucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • John Stuart Mill The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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