Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Jerry Gillies People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Bill Cosby People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed. It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Brian Friel People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bernard Crick Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 15
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • John Berger Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Samuel Johnson Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Charles Lamb Presents, I often say, endear absents.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Adam Clarke Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Bethany McLean Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Abraham Pais Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
    Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Antisthenes Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Ann Beattie Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Josh Billings Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bono Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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