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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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  • Simone Weil The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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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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  • Simone Weil The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Eric Butterworth The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Robert F. Kennedy The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Heywood Broun The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Elias Canetti There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Denis Diderot There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Elias Canetti There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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