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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Giambattista Vico It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Ben E. King It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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  • Archibald MacLeish Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Mark Twain Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry James Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Aleister Crowley Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Auguste Rodin Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Aristotle Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Machiavelli Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Heraclitus Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Bill Brandt Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • David Jenkins No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
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  • Baruch Spinoza Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Joan Didion Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bernard Marcus One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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