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  • Samuel Johnson As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Akhenaton As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Harper Lee As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Bernard Levin Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carlos Slim At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alfred Noyes At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Carol Gilligan At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Hepworth At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Busta Rhymes At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Edward Rowland Sill At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
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  • Baltasar Gracián At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Francis Bacon Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barry Manilow Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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