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  • Ulysses S. Grant Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    American Army general (1822 - 1885)
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  • Mary McCarthy Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Johnson Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Arthur E. Morgan Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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  • Max Muller Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
    Max Muller
    British-German orientalist and philologist (1823 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Johnson Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • George Santayana Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Meynell Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Russell H. Conwell Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Ben Nelson Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Sam Walter Foss Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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