Quotes with life-and-death

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  • Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • William Saroyan Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Martin Heidegger Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
    Martin Heidegger
    German philosopher (1889 - 1976)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Paul Auster Every man is the author of his own life.
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    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Martin Luther Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Iris Murdoch Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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