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  • Anatole France That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Harold J. Smith That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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  • Sir Richard Steele That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Thomas Carlyle That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Neil Armstrong That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
    Neil Armstrong
    American astronaut and engineer (1930 - 2012)
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barry McGuire That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Bill Buford The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Caitlin Stasey The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Sir William Temple The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Ben Okri The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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