"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."

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

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Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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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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"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."

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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"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."

"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

"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."

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"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."

"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."

"Sincerity is moral truth."

"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."

"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."