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  • George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Groucho Marx Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Walter Lippmann Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joan Didion Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
    Source: The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Ayn Rand Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Aeschylus Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
    Clark Kenneth
     
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  • Plato Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Booker T. Washington Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
    Source: Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Eliot Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Browning Oppression makes the wise man mad.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Source: Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
    Source: The New York Times (3 December 1978)
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Will Durant Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Allen Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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