“ England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'. ”
- Mary Todd Lincoln- Copy
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“ He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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“ The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. ”
- Edwin Way Teale- Copy
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“ It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. ”
- Mary Henle- Copy
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“ God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. ”
- Katherine Hulme- Copy
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“ There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
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“ The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ After the lukewarm promotion of our last couple of records, we felt nobody at the company really understood us and cared about us. In days past, record companies were committed to working a band over several singles not just giving up if the first single did not set the charts on fire. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
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“ It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order… ”
- Niccolo Macbiavelli- Copy
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