Quotes with well-descended

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  • Albert Camus If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lawana Blackwell If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Boris Johnson If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Dawn French If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Judy Garland If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • William Shakespeare If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
    Macbeth I, 7
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • A. A. Milne If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Beau Brummel If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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  • Bryan Fuller If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bruce Springsteen If the angels are unkind or the season is dark
    Or if in the end
    Love just falls apart
    Well then here's to our destruction
    Baby let me be your soul driver.
    Human Touch (1992) Soul Driver
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carl Karcher If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Andrew Johnson If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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