James Smithson Quotes
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.James Smithson
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison -
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson -
Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown -
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
Rand Paul -
Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner -
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
T. J. Miller -
Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
Harmon Killebrew
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis -
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase -
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken -
You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
Salman Khurshid -
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
Barry Humphries -
We can learn from everybody, man.
Dan Quinn
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Oscar Wilde -
The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The man with a peaceful nest to fly home to, has everything; there is no effort he will not make for his mate and offspring.
Christina Stead -
As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.
J. J. Abrams -
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
Yahya Jammeh -
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
James Smithson