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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Raymond Chandler The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Josh Billings The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Aldous Huxley The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Marquis de Sade The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Carl Van Doren The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Theodore M. Hesburgh The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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  • Ben Carson The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Gregory Nunn The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Francis Bacon The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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