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  • Bernard M. Baruch Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait - not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.
    De Engelse patient (2011)
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Ciardi Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Walter Benjamin Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
    A preface to Paradise Lost
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bennett Miller Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.
    Bennett Miller
    American film director (1966 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Bruce Vilanch Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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