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  • Sir William Osler The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Jean Rostand The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Robert Benchley The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Robert Browning The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Anatole France The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Northrop Frye The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Clark Moustakas The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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  • André Gide The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • David Mamet The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • David Mamet The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Arthur Helps The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Helen Hayes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Helen Hayes The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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