Quotes with one-man

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  • Ben Okri Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Francis Bacon Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francis Bacon Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sammy Davis Jr Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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  • Cesare Pavese Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion , albeit a very persistent one.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Nathaniel Branden Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Blaise Pascal Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Joseph Roux Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Bertrand Russell Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Anish Kapoor Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
    Source: Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Burning Spear Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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