Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Seneca That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Stuart Mill That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ben Harper The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Stanley Baldwin The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
    Stanley Baldwin
    British statesman of the Conservative Party (1867 - 1947)
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  • Vaclav Havel The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barry Sternlicht The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Bridgit Mendler The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • William Van Horne The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
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  • Samuel Johnson The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Donna Tartt The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Jean Paul The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • B. W. Powe The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.
    Towards A Canada of Light Letter To Those In power, p. 83
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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