"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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William James, American Philosopher

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."

Mae West, American Actress

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

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"Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other."

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"A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country."

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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

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