Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Samuel Johnson Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Ann Landers Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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  • Thomas Hobbes True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
    Source: Leviathan (1651)
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Charles Baudelaire True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Felix E. Schelling True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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  • Bob Beauprez True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Ben Jonson True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Townsend True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Augustus William Hare True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Lord Mansfield True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
    Lord Mansfield
    British barrister, politician and judge (1705 - 1793)
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  • Alan Cohen True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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