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  • Martin Luther Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Victor Hugo Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Bruce Barton Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Oliver Herford Many are called but few get up.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Caitriona Balfe Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thornton Wilder Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Horace Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Vance Havner Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Carl Safina Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Earl Warren Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • John Morley Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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