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  • Thomas Alva Edison There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Denis Diderot There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Elias Canetti There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Oscar Wilde There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Thomas Fuller Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Simone Weil When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above,
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Pablo Picasso Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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