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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
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Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
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