Quotes with well-descended

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  • Ovid The burden which is well borne becomes light.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ben Kingsley The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Willa Cather The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Luis Bunuel The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Angelina Grimke The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Andrew Jackson The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Henry James The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • E. M. Cioran The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Anita Hill The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
    The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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