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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Raymond Chandler The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Aldous Huxley The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Marquis de Sade The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Josh Billings The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jane Austen The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Abu Bakr The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Nixon The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Bevin The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
    Ernest Bevin
     
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  • Clark Moustakas The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
    Clark Moustakas
    American psychologist (1923 - 2012)
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