"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

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"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

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"Anger is the prelude to courage."

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."

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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."

"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

"Anger is the prelude to courage."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."