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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Napoleon Hill The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Wallace Stevens The imagination is man's power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Keats The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Middleton The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Marcel Duchamp The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Bruno Rossi The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
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  • William Blake The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ed Parker The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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  • Anna Quindlen The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Coke The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
    Prohibitions del Roy
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Augustus William Hare The king is the least independent man in his dominions; the beggar the most so.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The king is the man who can.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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