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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • 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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  • Benjamin Disraeli Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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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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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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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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  • Henry Miller Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Alphonse Karr Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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