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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom - one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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