Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Groucho Marx Women should be obscene and not heard.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Gloria Steinem Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Joseph Joubert Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Butler Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Evans Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • Agatha Christie Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts - not of revealing them.
    Source: The Labours of Hercules (1967) ch. 5
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • George Steiner Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Joseph Conrad Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Mark Twain Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Sand Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Albert Camus Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bailee Madison Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Sir William Osler Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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