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  • Bobby Ghosh On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Alfred de Vigny On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas De Quincey Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Colette Dowling Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
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  • Simeon Strunsky Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
    Simeon Strunsky
    American journalist (1879 - 1948)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Ruskin Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Kofi Annan Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Robert Frost One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Ellery Channing One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Berger One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Jane Austen One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sigmund Freud One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Robert Bresson One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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