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  • Alfred Adler Man knows much more than he understands.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Abraham Myerson Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Lee Iacocca Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Edmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Flannery O'Connor Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Huntington Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 197
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Ben Horowitz Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Brad Holland Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bertrand Russell Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Brad Feld Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • John Maynard Keynes Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
    Forbes (1993) v. 151, iss. 4, (p. 236)
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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