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  • Joseph Addison If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Jean Paul Getty If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Ronald Reagan Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Man Ray It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Seneca It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Cobbett It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Paul Geraldy It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
    Paul Geraldy
    French writer and poet (1885 - 1983)
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  • Bob Dylan Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • C. Neil Strait Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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