Quotes with than

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  • Henry Jacobsen People would rather be wrong than be different.
    Henry Jacobsen
    Norwegian politician (1898 - 1964)
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Betjeman People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Calvin Trillin People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • John Banville Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
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    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Wallace Stevens Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Iris Murdoch Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • William Cobbett Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Plutarch Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Aristotle Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Samuel Beckett Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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