Quotes with over-polite

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  • Alfred E. Smith No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alex Haley Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • C. Wright Mills Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Anthony Robbins Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Thales of Miletus Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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  • Shelley Winters Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
    Shelley Winters
    American actress (1920 - 2006)
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  • Juvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Angela Davis Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Gates Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
    Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
    Source: The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Sterling Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
    Source: in the Long Now talk The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole (2004)
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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