Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Thomas Szasz Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Charles Dickens Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry Fielding Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Money often costs too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Candice Millard More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Archer J. P. Martin Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bradley Joseph Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
    On composing Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Signi
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bibhu Mohapatra My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Martin Luther My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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  • Eric Hoffer Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • William Ellery Channing Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Francis Bacon Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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