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  • Susan Sontag The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Charles Lamb The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Frank Herbert The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Aristotle The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Eric Hoffer The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • William James The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Eliot The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alistair Cooke The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jane Porter The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • William Wordsworth The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
    Source: Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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