Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Thomas Carlyle Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sydney Smith Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Ruskin Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Becki Newton Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Jeremy Taylor Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Joan Didion Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
    Source: Faceboek (2012)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • François Fénelon Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Ben Gibbard Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bono Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Kriyananda Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Alan Cohen Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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