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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them...
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Everything comes if a man will only wait.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Eric Butterworth Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Oscar Wilde Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred H. Barr Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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  • Thomas Jefferson Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Josh Billings Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Pope Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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