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  • Carl D. Anderson Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Queen Victoria Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor Men of great abilities are generally of a large and vigorous animal nature.
    The Statesman (1886) 229
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emilie Cady Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
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  • Wyndham Lewis Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Voltaire Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Barry Zito Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Brett Ratner Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bill Griffith Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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