Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Bernie Sanders Difficult times often bring out the best in people.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Frank Tyger Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
    Frank Tyger
    American aphorist (1929 - 2011)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Robert Byrne Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Barbara Sher Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
    Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • Oswald Chambers Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Jonathan Miller Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Oswald C. Hoffman Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human.
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  • C. S. Lewis Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
    A Year with C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Matthews Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Titus Livy Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Stephen King Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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