Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 11801 till 11820 of 12035.

  • Ben Stein A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ambrose Bierce A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Epicurus A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jules Ormont A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.
    Jules Ormont
     
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  • Albert Schweitzer A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Horace Mann A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Simmons A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Fuller A man is not good or bad for one action.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • George William Curtis A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Oscar Wilde Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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