Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Leonard Bernstein To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carlos Castaneda To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Samuel Johnson To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anton Chekhov To advise is not to compel.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • George Orwell To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Peace Pilgrim To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Rodgers To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • John Tillotson To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Richard Whately To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Charles Edward Montague To be amused by what you read, that is the great spring of happy quotations.
    Charles Edward Montague
    English journalist and writer (1867 - 1928)
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  • Wendell Phillips To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • John Milton To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
    Source: Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) 1, 5
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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