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Henry Ford quote: "There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he..."
There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. Henry Ford
Louis L'Amour quote: "Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma..."
Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better. Louis L'Amour
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. Marquis de Sade
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy."
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of..."
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Confucius quote: "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected..."
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Confucius
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty. John Milton
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here. Jeanette Winterson
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. Mark Twain
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made Henry David Thoreau
Wendell Berry quote: "Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not..."
Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Wendell Berry
William Shakespeare quote: "Me, poor man, my library. Was dukedom large enough."
Me, poor man, my library. Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare
Franz Kafka quote: "In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world."
In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world. Franz Kafka
Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself. Hunter S. Thompson

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