Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Benjamin Franklin Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Voltaire Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi To fight extremism, we will need to pursue a two-pronged strategy: both 'hard,' through stricter control of our borders and a more robust and technologically advanced security response, and 'soft,' based on better intelligence-gathering, working to return our mosques to their spiritual function and barring entry to foreign preachers.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Booker T. Washington To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
    Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alex Trebek We are all experts in our own little niches.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Evelyn Waugh We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Benito Mussolini We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
    In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Booker T. Washington We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Sun Tzu When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Arthur Laffer When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Katherine Mansfield When you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Joseph Addison With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks he's rocking his own.
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