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GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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ANUJ SOMANY A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
HENRY WARD BEECHER All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN . . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his ...
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EVANS G. VALENS Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man wh...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Two hours. More than enough time to kidnap a man. Or to slice his throat, bury him in the forest, an...
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PETER STROPLE Make a difference always and in all ways!
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HARVEY CUSHING A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man -- he ...
HARVEY CUSHING Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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MAHATMA GANDHI Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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MADELINE MILLER It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bone...
JENNIFER EGAN Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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ALVAN L. BARACH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
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TED HUGHES Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
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JAMES A. BALDWIN There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
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BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
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ISHMAEL BEAH When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of cours...
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ANONYMOUS A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body...
JEANIENE FROST A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal
JEAN GIRAUDOUX He who is feared gets more than his own.
SPANISH PROVERB When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri...
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE We have become Gabriel's nightmare and Satan's fantasy.
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DAVE KLINK I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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MATTHEW V. LEWIS The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
MARIA V. SNYDER The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ...
E. V. LUCAS Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
V. S. PRITCHETT The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The ...
EUGENE V. DEBS Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. LUCAS The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Pr...
C. V. RAMAN What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material...
V. S. NAIPAUL The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized throu...
C. V. RAMAN The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
HARVEY V. FINEBERG I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They wi...
C. V. RAMAN I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and...
MARK V. HURD Given the tremendous customer response we have had to the Gaylord National, we have decided to incre...
COLIN V. REED I've been a free man.
V. S. NAIPAUL ...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE ...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
ANDREW V. MASON I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' postu...
RICHARD V. ALLEN