"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave."

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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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"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

William James, American Philosopher

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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

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."

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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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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."

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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

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"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

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

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"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!""

"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."

"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."

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

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"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."