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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Cato the Elder An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Oscar Wilde An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Backbite. To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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  • William Shakespeare By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Andre Breton Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Denis Diderot Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Tillett God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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