Quotes with heavier-than-air

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  • Lord Greville Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Antony Sher Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William S. Burroughs Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Agnes Macphail Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Dale Carnegie Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Ivan Turgenev Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
    Ivan Turgenev
    Russian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright (1818 - 1883)
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  • Vauvenargues Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Brock Fiant Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?
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  • Henry Ford Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Robert Anthony Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Bertrand Russell Most people would rather die than think: many do.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Aristotle Most people would rather give than get affection.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bertrand Russell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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