Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Albert Hofmann They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.
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  • William Shakespeare They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Dundes They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • C. Everett Koop They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joyce Grenfell They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
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  • Lord George Byron They never fail who die in a great cause.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernard Pivot They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bayard Taylor They sang of love and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang Annie Laurie.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bayard Taylor They sang of love, and not of fame;
    Forgot was Britain's glory;
    Each heart recalled a different name,
    But all sang Annie Lawrie.
    Source: The Song of the Camp
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • A. E. Housman They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
    Its narrow measure spans
    Rue for eternity, and sorrow
    Not mine, but man's.

    This is for all ill-treated fellows
    Unborn and unbegot,
    For them to read when they're in trouble
    And I am not.
    Source: More Poems (1936)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Frederick the Great They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Bill Burr They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Edmund Burke They talk as if England were not in Europe.
    Source: The Speeches (1816) p 86
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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