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  • Jean de la Bruyère A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Sigmund Freud A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Helen Rowland A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.
    Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Augustus Hare A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Graham Greene A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Malcolm X A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Joyce Carey A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
    Joyce Carey
     
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  • Edmond de Goncourt A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bill Hader A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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