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  • Thomas Szasz No further evidence is needed to show that ''mental illness'' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Anatole France No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • E. M. Cioran No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bruce Babbitt No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Ruskin No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No man can do anything well, who does not esteem his work to be of importance.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sydney Smith No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • John Milton No man can love freedom heartily, but good men; tbc rest lovc not freedom, but licence.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Epictetus No man is free who is not a master of himself.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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