Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Selden In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Hubert Humphrey In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Louis de Bernieres In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Henry Fielding In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bob Ney In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
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  • Bea Arthur In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Eric Butterworth In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Bram Cohen In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Brigham Young In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Benjamin Franklin In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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