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  • Stephen King Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Epictetus Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • John Ruskin Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Sir Hugh Walpole Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
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  • Diana Jordan Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.
    Diana Jordan
    American com diene
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  • George Bernard Shaw Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
    Source: Fanny's First Play 85
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Smiles Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Robert Menzies Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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  • Bruce Catton Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Eric Hoffer Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Edwin H. Stuart Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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  • William James Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Vince Lombardi Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • John Dryden Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Brit Marling Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Frank A. Clark Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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