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  • Albert Einstein A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Northup A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Louisa May Alcott A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Dwight L. Moody A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Thomas Fuller A man surprised is half beaten.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • George William Curtis A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Shakespeare A plague of sighing and grie blows a man up like a bladder.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Frost A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sandburg A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
    Source: Variation of izquotes.com/quote/162233
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Source: Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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