Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Ben Shapiro The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • George Orwell The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • B. F. Skinner The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Publilius Syrus The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Warren Wiersbe The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.
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  • Machiavelli The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bono The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Woodward The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Ben Bernanke The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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