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  • Friedrich von Schiller No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • C. M. Ward No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.
    C. M. Ward
     
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Source: Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Lyman Beecher No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
    Lyman Beecher
     
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  • Aristotle No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Robert Lynd No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Aldous Huxley No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Source: Collected essays (1959)
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Abraham Lincoln No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Simmons No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ansel Adams No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Channing Pollock No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Louis de Bernieres No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
    Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 104
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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