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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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  • Lord Longford The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
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  • Charles Lamb The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Roger Bannister The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cardinal de Retz The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Mark Twain The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hello The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
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  • Alexander Smith The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Henry Ford The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bert Williams The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.
    The American Magazine, Volume 85
    Bert Williams
    American entertainer and comedian (1874 - 1922)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Og Mandino The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Serge Daney The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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