“ Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity. ”
- John Knowles- Copy
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“ Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ”
- Baruch Benedict de Spinoza- Copy
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“ Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ An evil name — a drawback at first — sheds luster on old age. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day! ”
- Glen Cook- Copy
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“ God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God. ”
- Johannes Tauler- Copy
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“ I'm not really cut out to be a politician. You know that I sometimes don't know when to shut up. That could be a drawback. I'm an atheist. So there you go right there. I can't be elected to anything because polls all say that people won't elect an atheist… As we all know, that is something people won't accept. ”
- Ron Reagan- Copy
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“ Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement… says heaven and earth in one word… speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
- 733
“ Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public. ”
- Margot Asquith- Copy
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“ Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back — in many ways it is a feast fit for a king… ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
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“ Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. ”
- Madame Chiang Kai Shek- Copy
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