Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Henry Louis Mencken God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bethany Hamilton God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Anne Brontë God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXXIX
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Hannah More Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Welch Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
    John Welch
     
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  • Bill Drayton Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Oscar Wilde Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anita Brookner Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Joseph Joubert Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Martha Graham Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Alan Cohen Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charles Dickens Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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