Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ben Carson We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson We need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk about.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eric Hoffer We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Ney We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Orwell We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Seneca We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Plutarch We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Mother Teresa We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Mark Twain We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
    Source: Q Magazine interview,Nov 2010
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brit Marling We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Chimamanda Adichie We raise girls to see each other as competitors—not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing—but for the attention of men.
    Source: We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • William Nicholson We read to know that we are not alone.
    Source: Shadowlands (1993)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • Bob Iger We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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