Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Richard Dawkins What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Hippocrates What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bertrand Russell What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Joseph Campbell What millions died that Caesar might be great?
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bell Hooks What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • J. G. Ballard What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • George Eliot What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Rosa Parks What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Milton What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller What shall he fear that does not fear death.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Seneca What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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