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  • Thomas Alva Edison Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Adolf Hitler Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Simone Weil The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • William James The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idle.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Fuller The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Walt Whitman The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bob Marley The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Denis Diderot The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • A. W. Tozer The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice-any choice will be the right one.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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