Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Abraham Cahan Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Tom Hopkins Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Allen Klein Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Austin O'Malley Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Augustus William Hare Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.''
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Achille Poincelot Self-abnegation is a trait most often seen in women, rarely in men.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anthony Powell Self-love seems so often unrequited.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bill Kristol Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • John Tillotson Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Demosthenes Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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