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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Joseph Addison Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Camille Paglia Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Orwell Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • John F. Kennedy Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  • Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Lord George Byron No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • P. D. James No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Marley None but ourselves can free our minds.
    Redemption Song
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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