Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Simone Weil A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • John Ruskin A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Tim O'Brien A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
    Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 80
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Paine A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Robert Henri A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
    Source: The art spirit
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Alexander the Great A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • T. S. Eliot A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carlos Fuentes A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Robert Henri A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
    Robert Henri
    American painter (born Robert Henri Cozad) (1865 - 1929)
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  • W. H. Auden A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill McCollum A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Cameron Sinclair A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Ansel Adams A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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