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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

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After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#moments #money #turning #worst #writing

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity. ↗

— Tracey Gold

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Death is not the worst that can happen to men. ↗

— Plato

#happen #men #worst

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#carry #man #more #our #than

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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