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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
Age - Chance - Death - Extraordinary - Finding - Man - Oblivion - Poverty - Refuse - Soul - Talent - Yielding
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Rajneesh

Guru

An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full of love and full of music and full of poetry and full of dance that there are no limitations for it. Life is not hard. It is man's stupidity that makes it hard.
Art - Consciousness - Creativity - Intelligence - Limits - Man - Stupid
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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Man - Mindset
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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants
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Norman Vincent Peale

Clergyman, Author

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
America - God - Government - Liberty - Man - Problem - Security - Solution
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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.
Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence
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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.
Art - Dedication - Femininity - Fertility - Human - Industry - Intuition - Judging - Mankind - Masculinity - Organizing - Passion - Passive - Sexuality - Soul - Universal - Work
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Rajneesh

Guru

But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.
Dominating - Imagination - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Relationship - Support
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Aristotle

Philosopher

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
Health - Insanity - Man - Mindset - Sickness
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Edmund Burke

Statesman, Philosopher

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Interest - Man - Party - Principle - Promotion - Unions
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Death - Leadership - Sadness - Silence
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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.
Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession
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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.
Man - Suffering
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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.
Citizenry - Finance - Finding - Leadership - Reject - Solution - State
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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?
Man - Reward
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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.
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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Justice - Law - Man - Revenge
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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Accept - Comfort - Man - Oneself
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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Inspiration - Man - Rich
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Human - Man - World
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