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  • Auberon Herbert How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Antonin Artaud However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Raymond Chandler However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Adam Clarke However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Bob Filner However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Belinda Carlisle However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
    Belinda Carlisle
    American singer, musician, and author (1958 - )
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  • Brian De Palma However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
    Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce McCulloch However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bubba Smith Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
    Source: Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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