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  • Henry Louis Mencken Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Josh Billings Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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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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  • Cass Sunstein Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Most reporters I've spoken with want very badly to understand what is happening to her, but the why is really very unimportant. That is just not the point of the show. The journey is how she will deal with this situation, and how it will change her life.
    About her character on Wonderfalls, in Wonderfalls Spills Torrent of Wit by John Crooks at Zap2it.com (2004)
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Bryan Waller Proctor Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
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  • Bruce Robinson Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Jim Rohn Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Lou Holtz Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Bel Powley Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Billy Bob Thornton Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
    Billy Bob Thornton
    American actor, writer, and musician (1955 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Alcee Hastings Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Archer J. P. Martin Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
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  • Heraclitus Much learning does not teach understanding.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Susan Sontag Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Samuel Johnson Much of the pain and pleasure of mankind arises from the conjectures which every one makes of the thoughts of others; we all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt which we do not see.
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    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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