“ Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 170
“ Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. ”
- Norbert Wiener- Copy
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“ Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ It's a silly law. Not because the Constitution isn't worth celebrating, but because this is a silly way to go about it. But to call it an infringement of academic freedom is to confuse a minorly inconvenient mandate with issues of much greater moment To blow this up into the first stages of tyranny is overdoing it quite a bit. ”
- Larry Kramer- Copy
- 3.2K
“ A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you. ”
- Dick Francis- Copy
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“ Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. ”
- Paul Graham- Copy
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“ The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
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“ Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. ”
- Larry Summers- Copy
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“ What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good — the atavism of a more ancient ideal. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconceivable, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave. ”
- John Quinton- Copy
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“ Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ”
- Anthony Kennedy- Copy
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