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2845 quotesLanguage ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Language
George Orwell
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Goodness
George Orwell
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Medicine
Sir William Osler
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
Instinct
Sir William Osler
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Otway
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Hope
Ouida
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The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
Improvement
John Ousterhout
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Honesty
Ovid
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Night
Ovid
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
Envy
Ovid
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Children
Ovid
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Quality
Ovid
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Belief
Thomas Paine
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Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
Religion
Thomas Paine
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Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Human Nature
Thomas Paine
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Smile
Thomas Paine
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Purpose
Thomas Paine
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What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
Merit
Lord Palmerston
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I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
Men
Dorothy Parker
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Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
Dress
Dorothy Parker
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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Heart
Theodore Parker
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All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
Misers and Misery
Blaise Pascal
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Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Faith
Blaise Pascal
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Faith
Blaise Pascal
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Thoughts and Thinking
Blaise Pascal
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun