Quotes with one-third

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  • Elbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    American retired professional basketball player (1947 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
    B. Joweit
     
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  • Andrew Jackson One man with courage makes a majority.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alan Perlis One man's constant is another man's variable.
    Alan Perlis
    American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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  • Helen Rowland One man's folly is often another man's wife.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Harold Wilson One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Mark Twain One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Kahlil Gibran One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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