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  • Stephen King Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Kaplan Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.
    Source: The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Seneca Every guilty person is his own hangman.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Caleb Carr Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Every life is its own excuse for being.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
    Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect. 1,3
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • John Locke Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Henry Miller Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Francis Herbert Hedge Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
    Francis Herbert Hedge
    British philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Anacharsis Every man is his own chief enemy.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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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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