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  • Mark Twain I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Nathanael Emmons I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
    Nathanael Emmons
    American Congregational minister and theologian (1745 - 1840)
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  • Yogi Berra I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • William Shakespeare I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Homer I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Ben Hecht I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • E. M. Forster I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Henry Ford I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Francis Bacon I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Joseph De Maistre I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Chang-tzu I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
    Chang-tzu
     
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  • Anthony Trollope I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Maynard Keynes I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Adolf Hitler I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Malcolm X I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
    Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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