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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Heinrich Heine
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.


Patrick Kavanagh
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Man always dies before he is fully born.


Erich Fromm
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
William Wycherley
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.


George Eliot
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.


Damian Lewis
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.


Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.


Wilson Mizner
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
Jeremy Taylor
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Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.
Tim Wise
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Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.
Harry Harlow
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After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.
Najib Razak
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A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.


Lord Melbourne
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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It's safe to assume none of us actually wants to see ISIS-inspired terrorists armed with semi-automatic rifles, able to attack at will within our own borders.
George Takei
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.


Paul Valery
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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.


Benjamin Franklin
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