Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Lee The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Berry Wendell The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
    Berry Wendell
    American novelist, poet and environmental activist (1934 - )
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  • Greg Anderson The Law of Win/Win says, ''Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Anita Brookner The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Oscar Wilde The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The liar's punishment, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
    Source: Quintessence Of Ibsenism
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boris Johnson The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
    Source: The least said about Lib Dems, the better, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2003, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Allan Bloom The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Margaret Mead The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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