"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

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Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"The strong man is strongest when alone."

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

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"All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master."

"The real character of a man is found out by his amusements."

"A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great."

"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."

"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."

"Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing."

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