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  • Ken Keyes Jr No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • Marguerite Duras No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Barton No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • B. F. Skinner No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Plato No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jonathan Swift No wise man ever wished to be younger.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alexander Pope No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Hazlitt No young man believes he shall ever die.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Salman Rushdie No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Sydney Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
    Sydney Harris
     
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  • Samuel Johnson Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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