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  • John Kenneth Galbraith More die in the United States from too much food than from too little.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Candice Millard More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • P. T. Barnum More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • C. S. Lewis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
    The Pilgrims Regress
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Gloria Steinem Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Ben Horowitz Most companies that go through layoffs are never the same. They don't recover because trust is broken. And if you're not honest at the point where you're breaking trust anyway, you will never recover.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Casey Stengel Most games are lost, not won.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jerry Rubin Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
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  • Woodrow Wilson Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • A. E. Housman Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
    The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Seneca Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Benjamin Whorf Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Bruce Coville Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert Most of my rings are not expensive at all; they're just things that remind me of people that gave 'em to me. And they all have their own stories, their own meanings.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Robert South Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Ari Fleischer Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Blac Chyna Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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