Quotes with who-though

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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alain de Botton Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Brad Holland Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Bette Davis Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Louise Erdrich Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Eugene Field Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
    Eugene Field
    American writer (1850 - 1895)
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  • Edith Wharton Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bhagat Singh My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bram Cohen My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Beth Ditto My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Betsy Brandt My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Henry Fuseli Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
    Henry Fuseli
     
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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • R. Davies Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
    R. Davies
     
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  • Robert Hayden Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Boris Spassky Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Anne Bronte Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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