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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bob Lilly Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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  • Doug Larson Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Vince Lombardi Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Carl Sagan Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 06 min 04 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bell Hooks Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Adam Grant Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Some people dare not feel fully, all life must be a long self-repression.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bert Lance Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Barry Zito Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Louis L'Amour Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
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