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  • Victor Hugo Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Ben Horowitz Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Barry White Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Casey Stengel Most games are lost, not won.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jerry Rubin Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
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  • Woodrow Wilson Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • A. E. Housman Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Seneca Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Benjamin Whorf Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Bruce Coville Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Ben Nicholas Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • Brantley Gilbert Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Peter Townshend Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Robert South Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Ari Fleischer Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Blac Chyna Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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