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  • George Steiner To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Jowett To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Bill Shorten To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bhagavad Gita To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Abraham H. Maslow To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Merton To the truly humble man the ordinary ways and customs and habits of men are not a matter of conflict.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Calvin Harris To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Herman Melville Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bridget Moynahan Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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