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  • Seneca The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Stephen Bayley The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
    Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anatole France The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bern Williams The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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  • Edgar W. Howe The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • A. E. Housman The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Chase The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Susan Sontag The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Frank Herbert The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Sam Houston The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
    Sam Houston
     
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  • William James The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Eliot The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • William Wordsworth The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
    Source: Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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