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You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
Jon Stewart

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
Ralph Nader

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Emma Goldman

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan Quayle

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Flannery O'Connor

Temptation to behave is terrible.
Bertolt Brecht

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
Jose Marti

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

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