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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Marie Carmichael Stopes Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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  • Auguste Comte Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
    Auguste Comte
    French philosopher (1798 - 1857)
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  • Virgil Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Persius Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • John Oxenham Each man is Captain of his Soul,
    And each man his own Crew,
    Source: Gedicht: New Year's Day - And Every Day
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • J. Oxenham Each man is captain of his soul.
    J. Oxenham
     
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  • Remy de Gourmont Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Victor Hugo Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Source: Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Lillian Smith Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Education is the art of making man ethical.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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