Quotes with well-descended

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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Peace Pilgrim The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Lydia Sigourney The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Young The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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  • Gore Vidal The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Mother Teresa The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Albert J. Nock The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Robert Lynd The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • B. B. King The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Joe E. Lewis The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • A. J. Liebling The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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