Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Henry Miller The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bert Williams The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
    Source: The American Magazine, Volume 85
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Frank Zappa The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • George Orwell The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Stokely Carmichael The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • C. S. Forester The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beau Willimon The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
    Marguerite Yourcenar
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Billy Graham The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Charles Kingsley The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Bernard Crick The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
    Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 18
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Lord George Byron The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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