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Quotes 821 till 840 of 1724.

  • Lord George Byron Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • M'Ckuen Roger Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
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  • Maxwell Maltz Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Booth Tarkington Major Amberson had made a fortune in 1873, when other people were losing fortunes, and the magnificence of the Ambersons began then.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Barry Bonds Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
    Barry Bonds
    American professional baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Mark Twain Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Allen Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Man is not made for defeat.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • André Malraux Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bernard Williams Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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