Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Carson Mccullers All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
    Carson Mccullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Andy Rooney All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Rebecca West All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Jim Rohn All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Denis Waitley All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Peter Carey All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Toni Morrison All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Voltaire All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ellen Key All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Robert Collier All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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