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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • John Ruskin Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Seneca Every guilty person is his own hangman.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Caleb Carr Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • Alfred Adler Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Camille Paglia Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect. 1,3
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Locke Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Jean Paul Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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