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  • You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
  • Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
  • Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
  • I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
  • 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.
  • Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
  • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • George Orwell As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bob Hope If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Harold S. Geneen The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Plato They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Thomas L. Masson 'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.
    The Book of Today (1923)
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Samuel Butler A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • William Wrigley Jr A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
    William Wrigley Jr
    American entrepreneur and chewing gum manufacturer (1861 - 1932)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A person dishonored is worst than dead.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Epictetus A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Frank Sinatra Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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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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