"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

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"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

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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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"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."

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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"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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"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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

John Morley, British Statesman

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"He who hates vice hates men."

John Morley, British Statesman

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"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."

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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."

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"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

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"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."

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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."

"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."

"He who hates vice hates men."

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"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."

"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."

"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."

"Woman absent is woman dead."

"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."

"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."

"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."

"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."