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  • B. R. Ambedkar Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Ann Oakley Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Joseph Addison Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Woody Allen More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Orwell Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  • Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Hepworth My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Luther Burbank Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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