Quotes with worst-tempered

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• The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

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• The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

  John Lennon
  British musician (1940 - 1980)
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• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

  Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184

  John Sterling
  Scottish author (1938 - )
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• The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
  

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

  Henrik Ibsen
  Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''

  John Mortimer
  English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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• The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

  Edgar W. Howe
  American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

  Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

  Maggie Kuhn
  American activist (1905 - 1995)
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• The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'

  King Lear IV, 1

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The worst men often give the best advice.
  

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  Philip James Bailey
  English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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• The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

  Austin O'Malley
  American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  Ezra Pound
  American poet (1885 - 1972)
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• The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy.
  

  Alan Dershowitz
  American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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• The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.

  Wendy Ward
  professional golfer (1973 - )
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• The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

  Oliver Stone
  American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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• The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.

  On War (1832)

  Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• extraordinary
• anti-semitism
• underrating
• belligerent
• defenseless
• misfortune

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