Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • August Strindberg What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Anne Brontë What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Raymond Williams What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Louisa May Alcott What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Augustus William Hare What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Ben Nelson What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Anthony Weiner What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Beth Brooke What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Anna Freud What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Barry Commoner What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Audre Lorde What I leave behind has a life of its own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Carla Hall What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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