Discarded Quotes

• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  Perseverance, Determination, Failure

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• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Mae West

  Love, Sad, Boyfriend

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

  John Ashbery

  Beautiful, May, Impression

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Years, Liberty

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religious, Atheist, Truth

  Annajanska (1919)

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

  Gelett Burgess

  Change, Years, Age

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• Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Power, Underwear, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

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• The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

  Arthur Koestler

  Skeletons, Progress, Desert

  "Kaleidoscope: Essays from "Drinkers of Infinity" and the "Heel of Achilles" and Later Pieces and Stories".

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• How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

  Claude Debussy

  Sexy, Feelings, Naked

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• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Guiding Principles, Ideas

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Confidence, Men, Clothes

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• Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Suicidal, Men

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• The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

  Kingsley Amis

  Disappointment, Real, Loss

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• Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Culture, Leftovers

  "Pope Francis: Capitalism is 'a new tyranny'" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

  David Cone

  Hands, Years, Data

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• Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Home, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.324

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• In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.

  Amy Irving

  Actresses, Exception

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• Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Men, Waiting

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• Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

  Gary Neville

  Winning, Player, Years

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• I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Adventure, Work Out, Lines

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• There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  People, Our Society, Should

  The Washington Post, (p. A3), July 2, 1970.

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• Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

  Haile Selassie

  Organization, World, Today

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

  Trent Lott

  Apology, Past, Choices

  "Lott Apologizes for Remark". www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2002.

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