Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Auguste Rodin The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Gibbon The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
    Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Brad D. Smith The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Naomi Wolf The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
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  • John Ruskin The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Alistair Cooke The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Goodman Ace The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s.
    Goodman Ace
    American humourist, radio writer and comedian (1899 - 1982)
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  • Bob Moawad The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Daniel Defoe The best of men cannot suspend their fate: the good die early, and the bad die late.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Sir William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Ben Bernanke The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Robert Frost The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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