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  • Edmund Burke Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Homer Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Augustus Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
    Augustus
    Roman emperor (63 - 14)
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  • David Seabury Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lord George Byron Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sir John Denham Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Huey Newton Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Sir Richard Steele Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • John Newton Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Albert Schweitzer As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Elias Canetti A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Ayn Rand A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • B. F. Skinner A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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