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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
Lincoln Steffens
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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.


William Petty
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With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
Francisco Goya
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The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
Michael Feldman
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.


Napoleon Hill
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.


Napoleon Bonaparte
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However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
Jules Verne
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Bernard Baruch
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.


Francois Rabelais
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
Jonathan Sacks
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.
Gillian Armstrong
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
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For tis not in mere death that men die most.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives the purchases more and more than mere economic wealth.
Johann Rupert
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You know what's strange? A lot of men don't dream in color. Women will dream in color more than men.


Sylvia Browne
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