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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Theater
Gore Vidal

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He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
Wisdom
Voltaire

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
Courage
Voltaire

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
Service
Voltaire

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Fashion
Voltaire

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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Opinions
Voltaire

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The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Punishment
Voltaire

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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Courtesy
Voltaire

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It is invariable found that a content man is usually a weak one.
Contentment
John Wagstaff

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Friends and Friendship
Alice Walker

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Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]
Death and Dying
William Wallace

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The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Story and Story-Telling
Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.
Leaders and Leadership
Ted Ward

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Character
Booker T. Washington

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I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Hatred
Booker T. Washington

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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Brotherhood
Booker T. Washington

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'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
Alliances
George Washington

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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Government
George Washington

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All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy
Peter Wastholm

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A manager is an assistant to his men.
Management
Thomas J. Watson

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Success
Thomas J. Watson

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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Manners
Evelyn Waugh

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
Youth
Evelyn Waugh

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For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.
Bed
C. H. Webb

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
Anger
John Webster

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun