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• The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

  ― Simone de Beauvoir
  French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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• The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

  ― Katharine Hepburn
  American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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• The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

  ― Augustus William Hare
  British writer (1792 - 1834)
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• The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

  ― Douglas Adams
  British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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• The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.

  ― Bobby Scott
  American politician (1947 - )
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• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  ― Ang Lee
  Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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• The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

  ― Lord Shaftesbury
   
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• The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

  ― Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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• The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

  ― G. C. Lichtenberg
  German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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• The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.

  ― Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

  ― Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

  ― Arthur Koestler
  Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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• The most positive men are the most credulous.
  
  

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

  ― Stephen Nachmanovitch
   
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• The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

  ― Steven Biko
   
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• The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

  ― Bono
  Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225

  ― Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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• The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.

  Source: International Business and Leadership Symposium address

  ― Begum Aga Khan
  French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  ― Ralph Richardson
  English actor (1902 - 1983)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• presentations
• architecture
• reverberates
• superiority
• unconscious
• necessarily

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