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  • Bennett Cerf There have been too many [books] in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Camille Paglia There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Francis Bacon There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Blaise Pascal There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Francis Beaumont There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Pearl Bailey There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
    George Gordon
     
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  • Edward Dahlberg There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Croesus There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
    Croesus
     
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  • Jean Cocteau There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • David Gemmell There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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