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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Hugh Blair The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • John A. Hannah The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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  • Vauvenargues The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • David Bearwald The Greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carroll Quigley The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aristotle The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Barbara Jordan The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
    The Great Society: a twenty year critique
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • William R. Alger The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Salman Rushdie The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Thomas J. Peters The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Szasz The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Sir Richard Steele The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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