Quotes with worst-tempered

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  • Bob Beauprez Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Niels Bohr An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Daniel Defoe And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Ben Nicholson Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Jonathan Swift Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carol Leifer As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Margaret Oliphant As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bernie Sanders At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Edmund Burke Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Edmund Burke Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • John Irving Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tacitus Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Philander Johnson Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
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  • Bryant H. McGill Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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