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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Seneca No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Kahlil Gibran No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Henry Miller No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Jefferson No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Booker T. Washington No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • An Wang No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Brad Stone No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Paul Gallico No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
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  • John Knox No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
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  • Robert Wilson No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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