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  • C. Wright Mills Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
    Source: White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • R. Davies Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
    R. Davies
     
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ronald Laing Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Alexander Pope Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • William Wordsworth Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bill Maris Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Carl Sandburg Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Arianna Huffington Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Norman Douglas Nothing ages a man like living always with the same woman.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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