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  • Beryl Markham A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Will Rogers A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Cesare Pavese A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Charles Darwin A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Richard Nixon A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Darwin A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Queen Victoria A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • André Maurois A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Norman Mailer A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bobby Flay A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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