Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bayard Taylor So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Hiller So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Arthur Rock So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Ben Harper So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Roger Sherman Baldwin So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Blake Anderson So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • A.J. Reb Materi So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
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  • Austan Goolsbee So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Shapiro Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Aldous Huxley Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Gates Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Alan Watts Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Beth Brooke Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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