Quotes with the-not-worth-knowing

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  • Bill Moyers A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Samuel Johnson A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bill Hybels A key ingredient in authentic Christianity is time. Not leftover time, not throwaway time, but quality time. Time for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Unhurried, uninterrupted time.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Seneca A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Charles Lamb A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A letter does not blush.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Aesop A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A life which does not go into action is a failure.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alan Cohen A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Alexander Pope A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Ruskin A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Boy George A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bette Midler A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
    The Strip podcast interviewed by Steve Friess[12 27 2007 @ 20:59]PODXIES
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Bill Walton A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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