Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
    Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Elie Wiesel Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Margaret Halsey Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Lord George Byron Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much - and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Epictetus Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bartlett Sher Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Carl Sagan Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Jonathan Swift Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Denzel Washington Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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