Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Caroline Glick One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serves as guides for journalists are often affiliated with Islamic terrorists seeking to turn for foreign visitors against Israel.
    Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007.
    Caroline Glick
    American-born Israeli columnist, journalist and author
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Pierre Corneille One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • G. Emmons One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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  • Francis H. Bradley One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Bob Mayer One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Alexander Pope One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Oscar Wilde One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Winston Churchill Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Og Mandino Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Napoleon Hill Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill Bailey Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Dean Inge Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
    James Marchant - Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge
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  • Stephen R. Covey Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character…
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Dale Carnegie Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Aesop Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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