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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Burroughs One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Wanamaker One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alfred de Vigny One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Robert Collier One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry James One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Alan Cohen One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Groucho Marx One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Beilby Porteus One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Bishop Porteous One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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  • Balthus One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Gaston Bachelard One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Anton Chekhov One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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