Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 2159.
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Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
The Statesman (1886) 229 -
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
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Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
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Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
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Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
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Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
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